Yesterday's Love

Better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all
Or so the saying goes...

But love that's true is not so easily gone
It endures and survives deep in the heart
It spreads through everything in your life
Growing deeper and stronger every moment

And when that love is broken it is far from dead
Like a plant cut at the stalk with it's roots intact
True love will bury itself deeper to survive
While never dying and never disappearing

Everyday bringing reminders of the love still there
Always burrowing and growing but never forgotten
The pain of loss growing from the tendrils of memory
Infecting every moment with heartache and despair

For love refuses to disappear from our hearts
It brings constant reminders that it is still inside
Aching to live and be brought to the light again
Desperate to escape the dark exile it's suffering

Blessed are those who have yet to love
And those that have not yet lost their love
For life after love has been ripped away
Is no more than a husk left by yesterday