Learning love’s meaning After a while you learn, the subtle difference, between holding a hand and chaining a heart.
Then you learn that love does not mean leaning and that company doesn’t mean security and you learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises.
Begin to accept your defeats with your head held up and both your eyes open with the dignity of an adult and not the grief of a child.
So you learn to build all your roads on today, because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid flight.
After a while you learn, that even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you will learn, that you really can endure and that you really are strong and that you really do have worth.
And so you learn and Learn, that with every Good Bye ... You learn,
You ... learn.
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Posted: Jun 2016
About this poem:
Written and re written by me and copied by others, I wrote this after my first divorce, Three marriages ago you'd think I'd get the message, My problem is I learned to well, looking inwards only reflects shadows of your former self, Today's words tomorrows memories.