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SELFISH HEARTS

“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

By Sherrie D. LarchPublished 3 years ago 1 min read

We Look For Signs

That This Love Is Worth The Pain

Both Of Us Have Caused

A Love That Is Not Ordained

For The Certainty It’s Real

That You Truly Love Me

That I Truly Love You

Can This Truly Be?

Is This Really Love?

Or Just Our Selfish Hearts

We May Never Know…

We May Never Know…

Can We Leave Her Behind?

Not To Look Back At What Is Gone

Severing Love’s Promises

A Friendship’s Pledge Withdrawn

We Are Lost To This Pain

Of Not Knowing What Is Right

Feeling Love And It’s Chain

Though We Know It Is Very Wrong

Is This Really Love?

Or Just Our Selfish Hearts

We May Never Know…

We May Never Know…

This Love Pulls Us In

Like A Drug Of Fire

Destroying Us From Within

With Its Overpowering Desire

Wedding Vows Broken And Torn

A Friendship Forever Gone

A Comrade Left To Mourn

In The Rose Thorns

Is This Really Love?

Is This Really Love?

Or Just Our Selfish Hearts

We May Never Know…

We May Never Know…

Cheating hurts both sides, the cheated and the cheaters.

love poems

About the Creator

Sherrie D. Larch

I am a writer, blogger, photographer, painter (art), digital abstract artist, designer, in-home caregiver, Youtuber...living in Northern California.

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