Why can’t you harden my heart?
So that love doesn’t cause so much pain
Why am I always so trusting?
Allowing my heart to get broken again
I am tired of feeling the tears flow
The sorrow of my heart leaving its path upon my face
Feeling the pain as I’m dealing with another heartache
As again, cruelly, love is ripped from my embrace
Dear God; just take away my compassion
Take away this “softness” that makes me hurt so much
Take away this yearning for unattainable love
Take away this desire for a man’s touch
I need to be hard; to abandon all weakness
To reject false love; not allowing it to hurt me again
For love seems to be perverse; to be deceptive
In the life experiences shared by myself and my friends
I’m beginning to see love as a cruel joke
It teases; it beckons; it calls your name
You reach for it; thinking this time it will be different
But yet again the outcome is the same
Written by TaVona Salaz Treadwell