Love

Oh, how I wish, and hope that some day
You could know the joys of love, most true.
A love such as that which I have known;
I long for you to one day know, too.

How I often hope that a time will come
When warmth might thaw your heart, long-frozen,
And when you might know pure happiness;
The kind you've long dared not imagine.

I'd be so happy if you could one day
Believe that love and romance are real.
Yet, my joy would be nothing to yours;
The way that love can make your soul feel.

I have faith that through some twist of fate
You'll let yourself open completely;
The emotions you've kept locked away,
For all these years, buried so deeply -

And that love will then give you the freedom
To feel as though you could fly so high;
Fearless and powered by strong feathered wings.
Your heart will soar freely across the sky.

Yes, I do wish there'd soon come a day
When at last you'd experience love;
The kind of which you so bitterly
Claim to deny the existence of -

For I, myself, have known such a love,
Although, it was many years ago;
And love is the greatest gift of life -
A fact I hope you will one day know.