Those Thoughts Of Love Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

When I first gave my heart,
So fragile it was then.
It was quick to give love...
And quicker with one,
To let love in and begin!

And broken and mended,
Several times as I have aged...
I realize those love stages more,
Each and every day!

And those 'events' that sent me,
To despair in a shattered daze!
They no longer play with my mind...
And have fondly faded away.

I witness with growth today...
A valued appreciation within me now stays!
And I no longer find it as difficult...
To know love I can feel always!

And that selfishness,
To believe I can arrest another's love...
Has vanished from my mind,
Unknown and departed!
From this heart where love has started.

Those thoughts of 'love'
As I knew love in confinement...
Have simply with me has had its day!
Unconditionally in love I am,
And I love it!
In a phase that time brought with age!