Love's Thorns Poem by Lesa MRK

Why do you hurt me?
Why do you rip away my smile?

First you tell me you need me,
You long to feel me in your arms,
You've always wanted me,
And there is no other you love as you love me.

My heart is reeling from the words you speak-
Words I have longed to hear from your lips;
Words are all they are,
For in deed you cannot give me what it is I desire.

And as you realize how much I love you,
And how I have never put another above you,
As you look into my heart and see the answers,
You retreat deeply in to your shell.

Love is something in my heart I have for you,
Love is something you cannot accept....
Love is the price I will pay forever more,
For my heart is eternally bound to yours.

For now you tell me I mean so little to you,
That my touch repulses you,
That you never really wanted me,
And you don't love me as I love you.

Are you lieing now or were you lieing then?
Love becomes something ugly; broken,
When hateful words fall from your lips,
And beauty and hope are now reminisced

Your heart is formed of cold, hard stone,
And your razor-words pierce my heart,
For it is fragile like a rose's bloom,
It's delicate beauty scarred and torn.

I wish there were a way to stop this sorrow;
The painful bleeding of my heart.
Droplets of blood falling from delicate rose petals,
Becoming a crimson puddle within your hand.

The thorns of your love have cut me deep;
You are like poison to my broken heart.
You had the power to heal my wounds,
But so carelessly you chose to heal me not.

You go now to wipe my blood from your hands,
In an attempt to forget how we ever loved.
I'm not a mistake you only wish to forget;
For I am the whisper down deep within your soul.

So for now I guard my battered heart,
Wrap it in ice so it feels only a portion of the pain.
I cannot smile, and I cannot live;
Trapped in the memory of your desertion and betrayal.

I could forgive you, but I cannot forget
For twice you chose to hurt and betray;
Betray the one who loved you with all her heart....
The depth of that wound is ever so deep.

In time I will patch the bleeding wound,
Yet a scar shall always remain.
A bold reminder for all to see...
How your love has eternally forsaken me.