You spend years and years to find your mate<BR>But in the end you yield to fate.<BR>Fate is cruel, it's never kind,<BR>It tears away the mate you longed to find.<BR>It turns her against you and clouds her mind,<BR>It rips apart vows that used to bind.<P>I have spent my time and found my love.<BR>I have sworn my vows to heaven above.<BR>Intent alone a marriage won't make,<BR>It only takes one for a marriage to break.<P>You want to run, hide away from the pain,<BR>But that approach leaves little to gain.<BR>For love is here, so all can win,<BR>If you open your heart and let it in.<P>Emotional insecurity, ignorance at best,<BR>What kind of man can pass this test.<BR>A test of fortitude, of emotion, of time,<BR>A mountain, far to steep for me to climb.<P>Why must a man live in such pain. <BR>He searches his life away in vein.<BR>For love, companionship and piece of mind,<BR>For that which he will never find.<BR>A life of pain, disappointment and hate,<BR>Its sad to think that is his fate.<P>What can you do when despair closes in,<BR>When life has hurt you and there's no chance to win.<BR>When your mind has succumbed to emotional attacks.<BR>When those that once loved you have turned their backs.<P>Once bound by vows under heaven and God,<BR>They now lie at your feet for man to trod.<BR>A ring goes unworn and a hug not returned,<BR>Now just a mere spark where fire once burned.<BR>For in the end I have lost my wife,<BR>And with her has gone my desire for life.<P><BR>