Loved and Lost

They say it’s better to have loved and lost,

Than never to have loved at all.

It isn’t true.

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The skirting worry

Flitting through the mind,

And wondering whether lost is lost,

Or whether they’ve no time to find.

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It’s better to have loved and lost

Than knowing you had naught to lose.

That what you thought was something real

Was something that your love refused.