Once, I Loved a Coward

People always say never to love a coward –
They’re inconsistent;
Liars;
They never show you that they care.

Once,
I fell in love with a coward.
This man was an awful man,
An awful man with a chain and lock guarding his heart, protecting it, holding it captive.
It was blinding his very eyes
For he never saw the true me.

Oh well.

Evenings passed;
Mornings came;
Days went by – I remained alone.
Though…he was there;
He stood near me as the days went on,
But he was lifeless –
A being with no heart.
No love.

I asked him:
Remember the times we once had:
You and I?
Hardly air to divide us.
Women and men so hard tried to tear us apart,
Our love for each other
Spiking their envy.

Remember the nights we once had:
You and I?
Silence unheard of, we talked for hours.
Something in the way you whispered my name
Made me want to never desert you.

Remember the kisses I once gave:
To you alone?
How soft;
How seductive;
How pure –
Oh, I can taste your beauty right now:
So sweet;
So enticing;
Once, all mine.

But…
Now I remember:
How you pushed me away –
I remember how you told her you loved her.
I remember how you left me that night, how you left us.
I see clearly now, though,
That you never deserved me;
I remember that I should have never
Loved a coward.