Love – Gratitude (or: Prescious love)

The agony is so great …

and yet I will stand it.

 

Had I not loved so very much

I would not hurt so much.

 

But goodness knows I would not

want to diminish that precious love

by one fraction of an ounce.

 

I will hurt,

and I will be grateful to the hurt

for it bares witness to

the depth of our meanings,

and for that I will be

eternally grateful.

 

(Shirley Holzer Jeffrey)

 

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