Love's Risk

Love is a risk, a leap to the unknown,
but love compels us, so it trumps our fear,
love demands faith, deep down and all our own,
the blinding joy of love makes all this clear.
Love's outcome's dim and so love's often lost,
love's roller coaster cannot search each clue,
but searing love will never count the cost,
" 'tis better to have loved and lost" is true.
Most love knows well that love's not meant to be,
it takes two lovers to make love abide,
even requited love is never free,
love has its hidden costs it cannot hide.
Are you, Love, worth it--every risk and bet?
I wondered between loves . . . and yet, and yet.

                              -- by Pete Voelz       5/10