987 Heartbreak Poem by V F

Time and again my heart has been broken.
Yet I shall never learn,
Why do I pine for what can never be mine.
How many times,
In how many ways
You have shown that you do not love me.
Yet why do I keep on hoping?
Waiting? Longing? And Loving?
What pleasure does this pain give me?
Why do I continue?
Did I not live before?
I shall not die without you.
I have said that it is enough that I love,
Yet I too hunger for your love.
Why do you torture me thus.
Tell me it is finished once and for all.
I shall then die but once.

(20th February 2002)