There is something you should know...

I have fought many wars,

And am still wearing the scars;

I have felt so much pain,

And have screamed in vain.

Life has made me tough and hard,

But somehow also loving and tender;

And even though I have been bruised and scarred,

I strive to be kind and work at being better.

I should have given up long ago,

On having the right to happiness,

But I simply cannot let go...

Surely we all deserve a bit of love and kindness!

I just want to feel alive,

To be happy and be myself.

Life is too short to lie,

To others or to yourself.

I was not looking for you,

But somehow we found each other.

Who knows? Maybe the stars were aligned,

And our souls were meant to be together.

I never thought that I would find,

Such passion, such intensity;

Yet there you were,

Looking into my eyes as if you already knew me.

Our bodies just like magnets,

Our hand needing to feel the other.

You'd kiss me and I would forget,

There was a world outside our shelter.

Hurt revived painful memories,

And I retreated to avoid the buried feeling.

One mistake, that is all it took,

To drive you away, to break our yearning.

I suppose it was rather naive of me,

To think that possibly,

Maybe,

There was more to this than just a kiss;

See, to me,

When you are lucky enough to experience something that extraordinary,

You don't give up if you fall,

but you stand up strong and tall...

And you fight... yes, you fight for it..

Because life is too short,

To let go of the chance of being happy.

I hope you find your extraordinary..