Return to love

So much beyond your control

You wanted to believe

In a power

You could not possess

At that time

Life is often tough

And so much happens to us

That we did not choose

Then some say we did

Which makes things worse

Because the living with it is hard enough

Can we bear to realise

That life is not a fairytale

Can we see that life is often unfair

Many times

Hard burdens fall upon the young

Lives are lost or come undone

And there should be weeping

Naturally for what was taken

Not platitudes

Or stop gaps

To plug deep holes that are leaking

Blood vessels that are bleeding

From a heart undone

That must shed that blood

To give birth to the rose

Deep inside a soul

That knows the value of what is most precious

In life and love

Best through its absence and through its loss

Returning us to love