Love ain't Free

They feed us this foolishness about love being free
but its an untruth
I'm not talking about sex or paying for it I'm talking about actual LOVE. Love does cost us something. Most of the time it happens so fast we just don't realize it...


Love aint free

They tell you that love is supposed to be free
and it can provide you with most if not all of your needs
but no matter who you love there is always some cost
whether its the friends that you sacrificed, or the soul that you gambled,
whether its the time that you wasted or the mind that you lost
Nothing is for free...

You can give the best part of you and have someone take all that you can give
the very heartbeat in your chest but they expect you to live
while they are survived by 2
and your's is the strongest and won't give theirs to you
see its amazing how we will sacrifice our lives for a love we thought was free
and claim it unconditionally but neglect to love ourselves

Willing to go through all types of shit and mental hell just to have someone to say they love us with no gaurantee that they mean it.
starve ourselves of self-love because their love is like our food and water because we say we need it
And some will sell their souls just to have a warm body in their beds,
rather walk around soul-less than be single they said
rather be hollow than let my hearttake the backseat to my head
and without him or her I'd just rather be dead.

Love ain't free
No matter what Disney says and how many kings found their Queens and Queens found their Kings and lived happily ever after
The only part of the fairytale that i believe is true,
is that you've got to kiss what u believe to be a frog to get your prince and you have to kiss a few.
And even then its a gamble.
a lot for you to handle
because its cost may be more than the gain...

Life ain't a fairytale, love ain't free, and neither is a game.


©Poetically Receptive