When the Pain Is Too Much

The pain is too much…

Too much for this little heart.

I wish I had a bigger heart

So I could cry more for you,

So I could love you

Even when all that’s left

Is this pain in me.

This pain that is too much…

Too much for a weak person to bear

Without breaking

And falling apart.

How I wish to be stronger

So I could bleed without fainting,

And in bleeding

I may cry,

With all the love I have in me.

Because this pain is too much…

Too much to remember

Without being tempted to forget.

O, that I may never regret

Every second that I have loved!

I wish I could live over again

Each happy moment we were given.

For though the pain may linger

Our love would never die.

It will always come to mind

Each time that I cry

Out of too much pain for you.

The above poem is included in Jocelyn Soriano's book for those who grieve the loss of a loved one "Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief". Get it from Amazon today - click here.