Can you love someone<BR>With all your heart and soul,<BR>expecting the truest love<BR>yet, get part, not whole?<P>Can you give all you have<BR>to someone you love so dear,<BR>and live without a comforting hug<BR>or tender voice to hear?<P>Can a couple really love<BR>and care so deep and true,<BR>when one tries to get close<BR>and the other is distant from you?<P>Can love grow in a half empty plane<BR>that isn't tilled and nourished each day?<BR>Will it still sprout a binding tie,<BR>being forth a united love, I pray?<P>If there was once love from two who cared<BR>yet, one cant seem to now open their heart,<BR>Can they be re-taught, bring flourishing forth<BR>a lasting love they had from the start?<P>How can trust and love truly grow,<BR>when it hesitates to be shared?<BR>Why can't we just let down this guard,<BR>if we both honestly cared?<P>These unanswered questions I ponder this day<BR>as tears race down more and more<BR>while my heart aches without your loving embrace,<BR>or your comforting voice I yearn for.<P>I do not ask for a crown of jewels<BR>or a parcel of land to sow and till<BR>only a gentle smile, a loving hand,<BR>and a kind word and my half-empty heart to fill.<P>These things I need cannot be bought<BR>must I learn to love without love so true?<BR>Can't you feel how much you mean to me?<BR>I can't answer these questions, can you?<BR>