To those who have loved:
I don�t have the answers of where true love lies.
I don�t know if it even exists or if it�s all just a dream.
What I do know is that too many times we end up with broken hearts.
Shattered lives and dreams all for a chance that we just had to take.
Love is a funny entity, it likes to play hurtful tricks on our hearts.
Making us feel warm and secure, like we are walking on clouds.
And just when we think we�ve found the one who we can live our dreams with,
it all crashes down around us.
Now don�t get me wrong, I have been on both sides of Love�s fence.
I would much rather have my heart broken than to break another�s.
I think the pain caused from breaking a heart is just as bad as having yours broke.
And those people who play their games with others hearts, well, they�ve never truly loved.
I�ve been broken, beaten, scarred and torn apart inside.
Yet I still search for that one love.
The one that I can love back as much as she loves me, and vise versa.
The love HAS to be just as strong in both for it to really be true and to work out for a lasting relationship.
Again, I�ve been both sides of the fence.
Neither place is a fun place to be.
Giving everything and getting little in return and not being able to give as much as you get.
I�ve realized that I�ve been loved more than I could return and it�s just as hard.
Life's road can have some strange turns in it just trying to throw us off track.
I�ve learned a few things, I know I�m only 34 years old, but I�ve been around the barn a few times.
I�ve learned people, like me, give their hearts way too easily and quickly.
People..... take your time don�t rush love.
Don�t be in too big of a hurry to get your heart broken.
Only say I LOVE YOU if you are sure that you love them and as much as they love you.
But also be willing to say them first if it's felt.
Those three little words can cause the greatest of joy or the worst of pain.
I�ve felt that pain and I�ve felt that joy.
The beauty of that joy out weighs the chance of feeling the pain.
That is why, even though I�ve been on both sides of that pain, I�ll not give up on Love or Romance.
I know that somewhere out in this big ol� world, there IS someone who I can love and can love me equally.
I may end up getting my heart broke a few hundred times more, (God forbid I ever cause another�s heart to break), but I�ll find her just as thousands of others have.
Until that time,
I�ll keep searching.
Darrin L. Broyhill
� 2002
