I ask you for a smile and you hand me a crushing blow. I turn to you for comfort from the pain you have caused in hopes that you will embrace me and erase the tear stains from my face, you run a blade of anger and bitterness in my heart. And then, for only a moment, you will reach to me with the promise of love, you are in need of love, support and encouragement. I will not hesitate to freely give it, even knowing that you will turn savage once again and devour the heart that lifted you up. I hear your voice please to me for patience, understanding and guidance; all of which are immediately delivered and once you feel result you decide I need to be punished for loving you. I offer you repeated opportunities to quiet the raging storm of agony and anger, but I am struck until I bleed for being so arrogant to assume that I could help you with love. If you loved me you would stop whipping my already shredded skin and heal my wounds with the love and peace you keep promising......some day. I beg you for mercy and give you unconditional love, and your response? Ultimate rejection coupled with one more emotional assault. Have I not bled enough? Are there not enough gaping wounds in my soul? Where is your heart burried that you refuse to see me lying weeping on the floor asking for mercy and only for you to accept my heart and me? How is it that you could find my soul's deepest desire insufficient? I mourn the death of my hopes for us, and have only dreams left of the man I fell in love with. Broken