Withholding Love

Withholding love
delivers a life sentence.
The wound is self inflicted,
loneliness the penance.

“It’s a victimless crime”
you say,
as you serve your time.
“No ones heart gets hurt,
when I refuse to open mine”.

Nothing could be further from the truth
and how you see it.
Withholding love hurts everyone,
but the habits hard to quit.

It can start as just a reflex,
protection from the pain.
But living life withholding love,
leaves nothing left to gain.

The moral of this story,
we’re telling here today.
Is that you leave the world an emptier place,
when your love you won’t give away.

You’re living an injustice,
for yourself and others too,
For your love spreads only happiness,
thru the world,
but it starts with you.