Love Costs Poem by Rebecca Cox

We lie together, side by side.
Our breathing is like music to my ears, our hearts beat together as one.
My pulse still pounds beneath the surface,
Beating in time with yours.
I hear the wind carry your soft whisper of my name, so sweet, too good to be true…
Your arms encircle me tightly, pulling me to your chest.
I can smell your skin, taste your lips, feel your tender touch….

The dream falls away from me, wrenching me back into reality
Where you will never hold me, where you will never want me.
Where you will never love me.
How long have I loved you?
How long have I yearned for your voice to tell me you love me?
How much have I given?
How much have I received?
Years, I have loved you.
Centuries I have waited for your voice to form those three words.
Everything, I have given you.
Nothing, I have received.
You had my heart
I wanted you to hold it, to love it.
Instead, you broke it.
Into a million little pieces.
How funny it is.
How I can still love you with every broken piece of my poor, shattered heart,
When I know, that never, will you hold me.
Never will you take me.
Never will you love me…
Everything has a cost.
The cost of your Love...
Is my Pain...