warning v3

Do not buy a bird, with a cage and toys to play,

one open window and it will fly away.

Do not buy a dog that looks at you with dopey eyes,

it will break your heart when it dies.

Do not buy a kitten that chews your earrings on a date,

you won't be able to keep it from slipping through the gate.

Above all, do not love. 

 

To love is to dig ourselves into a quagmire 

of fears, expectations and disappointment and gut wrenching despair 

To love is to be alone

with imprints of all who have now since 

flown away, died, slipped through the gate.

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Do not buy a bird, with a cage and toys to play,

one open window and it will fly away.

Do not buy a dog that looks at you with dopey eyes,

it will break your heart when it dies.

Do not buy a kitten that chews your earrings on a date,

you won't be able to keep it from slipping through the gate.

Above all, do not love. 

To love is to sob 

over the single feather left at the sill

To love is to long 

for the warm weight in our arms

To love is to wish like never before 

to go back in time to do things right 

To love is to be alone

with imprints of all who have now since 

flown away, died, slipped through the gate