Love Can Only Exist

Love Can Only Exist Without Restrictions


If you do this, he says,
I will love you.
If you do that, he says,
I might love you.
Sorry, he says,
you failed the test.

You knew the rules,
didn't you?
You knew you had to submit,
didn't you?
You knew you could never win,
didn't you?

I like my pain,
it's mine,
I've earned it.








(I found an old poem that I wrote on 10/19/95)