The hurt and the heartache I thought would leave me phased,
I see now that these emotions cannot be erased.
For as hard as I love I hurt just the same,
but it's not everyone who gets to play this game.

I love with all my heart but hurt with it too,
this is the toll I pay for feeling as much as I do.
So much love spills from this heart of mine,
but just as much pain lodges there too, as they both intertwine.

My heart I wear on my sleeve, maybe that's why I hurt so much?
as I show this vulnerable part of me just as easy as I blush.
What is the answer should I hide who I strive to be?
but it's only recently that I'm learning to love me.

I recognise now that a bad person I am not,
feelings are awakening in me that I thought I'd forgot.
I thought I'd lost the notion of loving me for me,
though it's taken some time, the light I now see.

As I step back from my life and unveil my own strengths,
the courage that so many times to find I went to great lengths.
There was no need as it was in me all along,
blinded by the hurt I was convinced that alone was my song.

It doesn't scare me anymore as accustomed to it I've become,
for deep in my heart I know one day to love I will succumb.
Then I'll know when to refrain putting up a fight,
but not until I know in my heart that THE TIME IS RIGHT!

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