It's better to have loved and lost,

Than never to have loved at all?

Surely it must depend on cost

As if true love commits to all


Love is the sweetest melody 

Water so warm, it pulls you in

Loss takes, offers no remedy 

And when it pulls, it's sink or swim


Should love or loss leave your heart still

Each one threatens to take your breath 

Heart's ache by loss from one's free will

When offering their soul to death


What of love that once did thrive

Not killed by loss, taken instead

Betraying love remains alive

The painful loss of love not dead


Must love’s rose wilt away with time

Only to deprive those in need 

Think twice, a planned outrun or climb

For time has no concept of speed 


Who gets to choose the difference 

Of love that's lost or loss of love

Mocks us with offered preference 

Yet, choice is what we're deprived of 


Embark upon this love loss merge

Hearts up for grabs, souls on the line

We take or leave, retain or purge

Both love and loss, ours to define