No one has ever worried

About disappointing me

I, the giver, over and over

Until the stores ran empty

And they fled for a richer cache

I learned so much from this

You cannot please those who cannot

Even please themselves

Trying too hard as bad

As not trying hard enough

To make love, two must give  

Heart and soul and mind and body

To one another, naked and sincere 

To keep love, two must give

Everything they are 

Again and again to one another

As love cannot survive if left lean

Starving, insatiable and wild

To devour good intentions   

Love is meant to be a simple place

The sets you free to be yourself

Without apology or over complexity

Where each person is lifted up

By the others encouragement

Made whole by acceptance

Given peace in knowing

The roughly long winding  path of life

Is no longer walked along alone