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Poems: How?
How?
by John Bafford
September 24, 1998

Love
is the hardest thing in the world.
How are you supposed to deal with it
when the girl you love loves another?
When your heart points in only one direction
which, by fate, just happens to be straight uphill.

How are you supposed to move on
when you're afraid of letting go?
When you're afraid of losing
the only person that really matters to you?

How can you let go
of the best friend you've ever had?
Of the only person that drives your heart?
Of the only person that brings out the best in you?
Of the only person that makes you smile?

How can you even think
of loving someone else
when you have looked the girl of your dreams in her eyes
and seen love?
When the girl of your dreams has looked in your eyes
and found the person inside?

How can you survive the pain
of not being complete?
Of feeling you life fall apart around you?
Of wondering that you're hurting her by clinging on?

How can you live
with the pain of your heart?
With the sadness you feel?
And know you have little chance of happiness
with the girl you love?

If you know, would you tell me?
I really don't know...