Oh, What It Is Like To Love Others With All Our Might Poem by Mark Heathcote

Let someone know you are flawed every day
And every day they will treat you with derision
Let someone know you have faults and every day
They will look for holes to put them worm hooks
Let someone know your kind, and have weaknesses
And they'll take advantage of you, and laugh at you.

Let someone know your deepest thoughts and secrets
They'll draught-it-up, and hand it back a poison chalice
Let someone have your heart and it won't be long
Before you've forgotten how to be right and never wrong
Let someone promise you all the stars and the world
And you'll find yourself full of malice and all alone.

Let someone know you can be vulnerable, you can hurt.
And they'll pour their love out like its charity
Let someone know you are easy, and they'll leave you
Before your heart has time to fill up with cruel spite
Oh, what it is like to be totally open and unafraid
Oh, what it is like to love others with all our might.

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