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Better

Beyond my I love you lies

An I love you too,

Or sad poetry.

I write what I cannot have

Or what I cannot keep.

~

I go from loving to losing you

And both. I go from pain to

Odd pain then to forgetting,

And beyond that-

Pain even. But hope

Is always there.

~

The sun sets, not for the moon

But for tomorrow; Love leaves

Not for pain, but for love.

Pain never leaves.

Love always comes back.

Love comes back better.

Pain disintegrates.

~

Beyond sad poetry

Is romantic poetry.

Beyond poetry is reality.

Beyond everything else,

Good and bad,

Is you.

~

And You are far better...

...than an I love you too.

© 2013 J.S.P.