Love’s Cost
(Original Version)
That I have loved and ever lost
shall tell you of the cost –
the toll it takes
when a heart breaks
is always worth the cost.
unselfish love, enduring care
although there’s none to share –
unspoken words of silence trust
beyond the needs of lust
if you’re with one to share.
yet let me see within your eyes
that love within you dies –
then I shall cry a hundred tears
and miss you all my years
for none shall hear when love dies.
if ever love be lost,
remember that you care –
let it show within your eyes;
it makes but dust of fears.
© 17 December 1991 June Goodenough aka Ricci
Beyond Worth
(Re(En)Visioned)
unspoken the words,
yet needs cry one breaks silence;
unselfish let be –
enduring the cost within;
for a loved is ever lost.
© 31 March 2020 June Goodenough aka Ricci
Ms. June Goodenough, aka Ricci, published first in 1972 and since in small press anthologies, a county review, and military base newspapers. Her English BA is from Mansfield State College. She is a retired Air Force officer, an equestrian, a Tae Kwon Do Black Belt, and has shot an arrow-within-an-arrow bullseye at 50 yards.
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