That's Life And That's Love Poem by Francis Duggan

Few long term non platonic relationships as passionate and loving does stay
And that goes for heterosexual as well as gay
Love is usually at it's best when it is new
Long term passionate sexual relationships to say the least few
Some forms of love to them do not have a long span
The man grows tired of his woman the woman grows tired of her man
And with gay couples it is very much the same
When the fire of love fades to a flickering flame
Some will tell you that love can be better the second time around
But at the end of love that starts in joy bitterness to be found
Few loves till the death of one partner as true love remain
The complexities of love beyond me to explain
Once so much in love they hate each other today
That's life and that's love as some are known to say.