Uttered tenderness

Because I have loved you too deeply
you have felt if of no value
and thus rejected it... you have
felt I could not see beauty in
you, who has decided your own...
lack of worth... you have thought
me weak because I have loved
you still even as you scorned
me... I can only repay you with
more love... even as I turned
from you, my heart within me
was bleeding for love of you...
and uttered tenderness within
myself with each pulse beat...
My pride I walked on for love
of you... and left trod in the
dust... and in hunger for your
love my soul cried in dispair...
Far better to be humilated in
love and expose its nakedness
to the elements... than to walk away
triumphant... but without love...

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