A damned love from the start

"Tis better to have loved and lost
than to never have loved at all"

But damnit I need to know at what cost?
Is it better to have loved and then lost?

Did I have to give up everything for you?
Or allowing you treat me the way you do?

Love is sometimes not enough,things get rough
The tough get going and I stayed strong,tough

Instead of going I found myself prepared to stay
I loved you,taking it all,until near the end anyway

I would have preferred never to have loved at all
Than to have loved you, you needed me to crawl

All is fair in love and all? Not in my case mate
Love so easily changed to almost extreme hate

You hurt me, some couples love it this way
This was not for me I managed to softly say

Better to be badly treated, loved than all alone?
No! I say. You are to me a leper, unknown

Call a good friend to hear or listen to you, do
Love is supposed to be good and caring for you

They say they love you but they strike you instead?
Physically the blows land, beating you till you’ve bled

Find a way out, to escape the mental torment
I gave you my true love but you did not repent

Content you were to repeat the vicious cycle
The only blessings, our sons, Thomas and Michael

Time has passed us by, the boys growing
I have found myself loved again and forgiving