Taken For Granted

Never cherished Taken for granted Forgotten More often than not No one truly has seen The beauty that lies Inside my heart When I love someone Every breath I breathe Is only for my love So I can spend one more Moment giving them a tender Kiss or loving embrace I cannot live without their love It is like life saving oxygen That I would perish without So every year that passes Little pieces of my heart die I struggle for every breath For every love that comes my way Comes with a double edge sword For my desire I must always pay a price Abuse is the only kind of love I have known It either comes in the form of neglect Comes in the form of battering my body or Lastly it comes by the battering of my soul Through words of emotional abuse that are uttered I have been left a damaged, incomplete woman that Does not know how to recognize anything but dysfunction Love is our reason for living But, love forsakes so many The world is a lonely place Many people don't have Someone to love them They sleep alone without A lover to embrace them They have no one with which They can share a meal No one to hold them When they cry No one to hold their Hand when they are ill No one to stand by them When the road they are On gets a little bumpy If you are fortunate Enough to be loved Cherish what you have Been blessed with Hold on to it tight Never letting it go Treasure the gift that has Been bestowed upon you Always let your love know How much they mean to you You never know if that will Be the last time you see them Our life span has no guarantees Live every day like it is your last Put an end to your searching Because what lies before you Is where you will find true utopia