A Lover With A Conscience Poem by Zotena Moses

There is a kind of madness
in the heart of a man,
not the kind that destroys,
but the kind that feels too deeply to escape itself.
You will see it in how he loves you,
in how silence becomes concern when you are breaking,
in how even his anger trembles
so it does not bruise your name.
a true lover will not let you drown in the ocean,
He has a conscience.

A true lover does not abandon you to your own storms.
He does not watch you sink and call it distance.
Even when he does not fully understand your tears,
he respects their weight.
Even when life presses heavily on his chest,
he still makes room for your peace.
Because real love does not mock weakness,
it shields it, gently.
a true lover will not let you drown in the ocean,
He has a conscience.

When a man truly loves you,
love becomes his language of sacrifice.
Distance loses meaning in his devotion.
Time bends to his consistency.
He builds without breaking your spirit,
he corrects without humiliating your soul,
he protects without turning into a cage,
he gives without keeping score.
a true lover will not let you drown in the ocean,
He has a conscience.

So listen, young hearts,
young lovers still learning the weight of affection,
if you ever meet a love that carries this kind of depth,
do not treat it like something ordinary.
Do not gamble with a heart that chose you fully.
Do not turn tenderness into something disposable.
Because not every heart that loves you
will survive what you choose to do with it.
a true lover will not let you drown in the ocean,
He has a conscience.

I must speak now from what still echoes within me,
I was loved once, or so I believed.
Then one day, the warmth withdrew without warning.
No argument to hold onto, no explanation to carry,
only a quiet disappearance of everything once promised.
He did not slam the door; he simply faded through it,
leaving me standing inside memories
that no longer had a voice to answer me.
And I learned how silence can wound louder than words.
a true lover will not let you drown in the ocean,
He has a conscience.

So if you ever stop loving someone,
be honest enough not to leave them in fragments.
And if you ever truly love,
then love like someone who understands the value of a heart—
not as something to hold briefly,
but as something to protect even when letting go.
Because love, when it is real,
does not destroy what it once touched gently.
a true lover will not let you drown in the ocean,
He has a conscience