love doesn't hurt
love didn't hurt
love doesn't break bones
or slit throats
love removed all your past pain
and gave me a life in you

so don't you dare blame
the one thing
that puts life into life itself
and makes a flower
feel like a garden
for your own shortcomings

the pain wasn't love
the pain was you taking love away
over and over again
for different reasons everytime
most of which didn't have anything
to do with love but were your own dilemmas

love didn't hurt nor ****
you did
forgetting that in order to keep love
one must love back with persistence
compromise & commit
those form a base for love to grow

perhaps I can do nothing
except wish that
one of the two didn't happen
either i never saw you
or you never left
all the times you did