Hopeless Love

Love is like taking a chance,
It is gambling everything,
All you've ever thought and felt and wanted.
It is failing to be the person you once were
Merely to please another.

To fall in love is to be broken,
And put back together
By someone who doesn't really understand.
Who never really knew what they had in front of them to begin with,
And sees a piece of clay.

To be in love is to give up all hope,
To forget everything.
Throw your hopes and dreams to the wind, and be free.
Chains of another kind await you,
The ones you dream of.

Love can be all of this.
But love... love can overcome,
And it can learn to accept you completely
Change is needed; but sacrifice is not.
Sacrifice your heart, not yourself.