The Shadow Of Contradiction

Strolling through the shadows I pondered.
Upon many things my mind wondered.
I was in a most altruistic introspection.
I looked at contradiction without protection.

I could think of some things but not others.
Unclear thoughts was what I discovered.
Some love I must have taken for hate.
Things had changed since the first date.

My mind had evolved but not my heart.
Compassion was later to take a part.
Indifference and intolerance had to go.
Much vulnerability came to me though.

I traded my heart of stone for one of flesh.
It jaded my ego but love was refreshed.
Somehow I had to equal myself to you.
So many things I had to go through.

But I would not trade any of my pain.
Because then I would lose you, again.
No matter the contradictions that persist.
I know now that love will always exist.