Love Is a Secret

Love yearns to share its happiness to all,

But it can only share its greatest joy to its beloved.

Only the beloved knows the very depths of its pain.

And only the beloved can share its highest bliss.

It is a secret that belongs to lover and beloved alone.

It is a language only they could possibly understand.

None can hear its music but the two.

The two who have now become one.

It is never a lonely time for as long as they have each other.

For together, their hearts could whisper

as they walk hand in hand.

What's lonely is to walk among many other hearts

And not to belong to any of them.

What's lonely is to try to share your soul,

And no one's willing to take it,

No one's willing to claim it as its own.

So divulge not to anyone

The secrets of your heart.

Divulge not the language

that others could never understand.

There is only one who knows.

The only one who can enter

The innermost chambers

Of your heart.

The above poem is included in Jocelyn Soriano's book for those who grieve the loss of a loved one "Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief". Get it from Amazon today - click here.