Author's Note

This was included because it still holds true today.

Women have so many freedoms now but they suffer

the same heart aches. Men are now suffering in some

of the same ways and all us crave love no matter what age.

Only A Fool

The tears won't come

They are all inside

Slowly smothering my very soul.

To be able to cry,

Just to rid my heart of its ache

would bring joy beyond compare.

Yet, to cry would mean failure.

I am strong, I don't look back.

I keeping fighting, moving forward.

No matter how much the hurt, I won't cry.

I will keep my pride.

If he can, so can I.

For I am stronger than he.

Only a fool would have fell for him

and it took this fool to do it.

So I must stand up and face it.

I was a fool, but wasn't he?

He fell for me.

He just wasn't strong enough to be mine.

So as I sit here by the phone,

I wait, in vain, for him to call

and I know that again I am wrong.

For when a man cannot face love

He finds his strength in the weakness of it.

Love is a strange thing.

We all want it, we all give it, we all take it;

And a fool it is that says he doesn't.