[Soaring Feather]

I Can't Make You Love Me

I loved you with all my breath
with all my being.
It was not enough.
I can't make you love me
not today, not last week, not last year.

I gave all, left nothing for me to hold on
you took all there was, and wanted more.
Bankruptcy is not cheap, be it financial, or emotional.
No one is every happy in a one sided love.

The next time will be different, or so the thought goes.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
I won't fall as hard, I won't love as deeply
I won't gather stars and lay them at your feet
I won't walk the second mile for you, unless
you meet me three quarters of the way in.
Then I will love you with my every breath
with all my being, until forever, or which ever comes first.

I will love you until I die,
When there is no breath left in me.
I will wait for you to join me.
Together we will explore the wonders of the universe
walk on diamond paths, smile in sunlight
laugh like children in the grass
play in Aurora's color, and twinkle in the heavens at night.

I can't make you love me.

bentfeather (c) 02.13.06

[Soaring Feather]

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[fatima]

Thank you bentfeather.This would make a good song.There is an old rule-never give everything:)I like it but it seems like they will fall back into the same trap again,(((Hugs))),fatima

[WayzataJOHNN]

"I Can't Make You Love Me"

This is a wonderful poem, layers of images intertwined, soft and subtle, sweet and bittersweet, aching with such a need, the image that comes to mind is hand raised, reaching but not touching.


This is a keeper!!!

(Oh to have a woman write something like this for a lug like me!)

[Soaring Feather]

I Can't Make You Love Me Correction. No one is every/ever happy in a one sided love.