Cowards

A man or  woman can compromise
agree to things that go against
the matters of their heart.
All for love,
but is it really love?

A coward, can be
a man or a woman,
who think they are compromising.
They won't kill anything but
they won't let it live either.

What does this have to do with love...?
Everything.
When you love someone,
you don't leave them feeling empty,
wanting something they can never have.
When you love someone you
don't pick at the open wound,
and give them salt as medicine.
Sure it helps it heal,
but in a more so cured meat kinda
way.
Tough, and salty

The next person will
get the beef jerky of life you left
behind.

I resolve
that I refuse to be a coward.
I will not pick at the bones of
left overs, that are not really left overs.
I don't want the empty hang over,
hang ups, push ups of what
was or should have been.

I want what is there for me
when it time for me,
and its mine in the
proper condition.
It can't be angry,
it can't be regretful,
it can't be resentful,
and it can't be unthoughtful.

I guess I can say I have been
a coward one or twice in my
life.
But today I want
to be me....
filled with love to give to the right person,
honest enough to say when I can't be right,
loving enough to love without conditions,
beautiful enough to open my eyes to the sunrise, and
lay at night to the sun set.
Today,
is new
and I will live
each day in the new.
I can't live in the past,