Love and the Beloved by Pujakins To regret love Is to take away delight: Walling up happiness behind bitter bricks Mortared with anger. To refuse love Because it cannot be as one desires Keeps one from the lover's joy: Locked out of the fragrant garden. To love unconditionally allows The lover to receive whatever the beloved gives And still love on without expectation: A sun shining brightly behind clouds or night. Beyond our knowing, The stars move through the sky, And heaven sweeps up the tears of love Making of them rainbows to comfort the woebegone. Do not regret having loved, Do not regret being loved. To love from a distance may be enough: Roses and thorns grow together, but their fragrance Does not wound. Added to GotPoetry.com ( http://www.gotpoetry.com ) on 23-Jul-2010