To Have Or Have Not

Vacant hearts can lessen scars along the way Avoiding risks from pain when love's let in Yet, how can life be lived before the grave Whose mission is avoiding life's intent Though closeness lends itself to greater loss What yields life's journey rapt in solitaire? To obviate a puppy for its claws Or spurn the hand with naught but love to share Indeed, the heart might ache ten thousand times For one so blessed to have that many friends But he who knew them not already died Avoiding grief, but lonely 'til the end