By Luciano Rodriguez Jr. (Mathias416@aol.com)
Date: 20 December 1997

Was Love Present?

it started wit i love u.
and i love u too.
for birthdays, roses and balloons.
on saturdays we’d watch cartoons.
though we had love.
and God  was shinin’ from up above.
it didn’t feel tha same.
was i to blame?
we was tight.
we didn’t even fight.
but we were goin’ separate ways.
lost and confused, like a dog that was stray.
makin’ out, and tastin’ your love led us into tha bed.
as i opened your legs, “we forever,” that’s what i said.
then things started to change.
i found that to be strange.
no beginning and no end.
yet i was losin’ a lover and a friend.
from tha pain in my heart.
i was breakin’ down into parts.
nothin’ triggered when i felt your touch.
but i love u so much.
tha petals, didn’t agree.
we weren’t meant to be.
what shall we do?
we made love - one not two.
forever no more, but why we weren’t sure.
we faced reality, and for that there wasn’t a cure.
tears drip from my face to tha ground.
‘cause i miss tha days when u were around.
as i stare at our picture hung on tha wall.
i ask myself, “was it better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”
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