Poem: Fool’s Love

I am a fool
Constantly falling
Constantly failing.
Loving
But not being loved.
There is a time to embrace
And a time to refrain from embracing.
Seems to me
All too often
Love requires me
To let go
Refrain from
Comfort of warm embrace.
When I look at her
Or even think of her
My heart clenches
Tears well
Soul pains
At all that wish to be
All that I can’t be.
Oh!
Unrequited love!
How foolish am I
To keep falling
Keep hoping
That this time
Or the next
Will turn out right?
What woman
Would want a man such as I?
Marked as different
Marked as weird.
Oh I yearn
For love to accept me
As I am.
But I harbor a fear
Growing ever stronger
That I shall be
Forever alone.
Still I hope
To prove that fear wrong.
I may be
Fool enough to love
But I am also
Fool enough to hope.
May fortune favor the foolish
Amen.