When you really love someone
With a zeal hot as the sun
When you offer whole your heart
Consumed you are, you hoard no part
Forget you will sins of the past
The days and nights can fly so fast
How bright the future, it will seem
Dismiss the risk of shattered dream…
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Yet heated passion always cools
How Love reduces us to fools
Until through ache, the fog will clear
Leaving us with what we fear
An absolute loss of affection
Nothing stings more than rejection
Confirms that thing we’ve always known
Seems destined we’re to be alone
There’s no amount of attitude
No offered empty platitude
Will lift us from that cloud of pain
It’s hard to think we’ll love again
Perhaps we will, or if we don’t
Hard-scrabbled we’ll still reach that point
Of sturdy stuff our spirit’s made
That sadness, like small wounds, will fade
There’s good gained from Love’s fickle game
If self-awareness be your aim
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