The Love of Sacrifice and the Sacrifice of Love

        Sometimes one must reflect on an event to really experience it fully. Sometimes in life to take a step forward you have to take two steps back to see where you have been in order to clearly see where you are going. This poem is about an experience I am currently undergoing and it is also what I will tell myself in order to never give up, and to never back down. No matter how many times I shall get knocked down, like the mighty Phoenix I shall rise back up with even more determination. When life fights against you, you fight back, and prove that you are stronger.

  You look over at me, and smile again,

I try to fake a smile, tell me when will this end?

We are "Birds of a Feather," yet we can't flock together,

My soul is crippled due to this ungodly weather.

Every smile you give is a knife to my chest,

But I smile back thinking "It's just for the best,"

We want to be together,

Your the rope to which I'm tethered...

But I only wish that they could see,

The love for you that is in me,

It clouds my judgement yet fills my heart

Why can't they see that nothing will ever tear us apart?!

But for now I sit and see,

And hope I shall never be,

The source of your forbidden agony.