On love and hate what can a heart learn?
Where is the place of letting go?
What lines to cross to hurt and turn
away from what love we know?

What words weaken knees and hands?
Cold distances that fill with warmth and flesh?
amendments, closure, and future plans?
Pulsing blood, and battered breath..?

OH love I'd been wanting to say I have learned
alas, no lesson on love or hate can last.
As if not I, but love does yearn
for the verboten love of chances passed .