Hurt No More

Posted by Terrence Johnson

Many things are done in the name of love
Some beautiful, some dangerous, some illogical
Still each one lovely
Love can tell you to stay
When you know you should leave
Enduring verbal, physical, emotional abuse
To reply
I know ______ still loves me
Staying with someone that cares nothing about your struggles
When their petty issues always come first
All in the name of love
Trapped in a slow dance with love
Loving when love is good
Hard to escape when love turns bad
Circling and circling in the middle of life's dance floor
Love is more than a feeling
It is a mind state
A place where the mind has no control
Almost unconscious
Advice falls on deaf ears
Because others "don't understand our love"
What seems so obvious to others
Cannot be viewed by us
Shielded by love's brilliance
Blinded by the hope that one day
Love will make everything right
That the hurt we have endured will be worth it
The nights of tear soaked pillows
The hurtful words that still remain
Just to maintain love
This can't be love
Not when it affects mood
Infiltrates the mind
Causing self destruction
Love builds not destroys
True love exists
So does tainted love
It is not hard to distinguish
Choose to hurt no more