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Love Is Grief

To give yourself to love
is to leave your heart
openly vulnerable
that someday
when you least expect it
you will suffer
the inevitability
of loss and pain
yet take the chance
that it may all be worth it



AP:  3rd place 2020

Submitted on April 22, 2020 for contest STRAND PICK B sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  HONORABLE MENTION

Originally posted on May 19, 2019

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Ann Gilmour Date: 4/22/2020 10:45:00 PM Such poignant words dear Line, but life without love is no life and despite the pain, love lives on in our heart forever. With kindest thoughts Ann xx Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 4/23/2020 12:34:00 AM Thanks for your lovely visit and comment, Ann.

Panagiota Romios Date: 5/23/2019 4:37:00 PM Great pholosophy, Line Wishing you well! Panagiota Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 5/23/2019 4:51:00 PM Thanks for your most appreciated visit and comment, Panagiota.

Timothy Mcguire Date: 5/20/2019 11:13:00 PM It is worth it, as the old saying goes, its better to love and lost than to never love at all Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 5/20/2019 11:24:00 PM So very true, Timothy.

Gershon Wolf Date: 5/19/2019 9:22:00 PM Yes! Love is a gamble, isn't it? We often leave ourselves unprotected... :) gw Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 5/19/2019 9:53:00 PM Even if it does work out... in the end there is... an end.

Caren Krutsinger Date: 5/19/2019 5:57:00 PM I am going along with Nina on this. Nina, you said it perfectly, so I ditto Nina. Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 5/19/2019 6:09:00 PM OK I ditto my comment then, Caren. LOL

Hilo Poet Date: 5/19/2019 2:14:00 PM Yes, the experience of another heart being shared, oppose to a lonely heart, --nice one Line, Aloha wk Login to Reply Line Gauthier Date: 5/19/2019 2:32:00 PM Thanks, William, for your much appreciated visit and comment.