Title for this?

[kelby_lake]

It seems the scales of love are tipped
To favour those whose hearts can flip
Our steadfast hearts have battled, fought
For hearts that sail away,leaving us at the port

It's fine and fair for hearts that falter
To leave the hearts that cannot alter
They sit there, puzzled, then leave it to fate
We are condemned to our love; we cannot wait.

A changing heart can make a choice
Whilst faithful hearts can only hear their voice
The echos of a loss unknown
By hearts allowed to run, to roam

What can we do?
What must us hearts pay?
To win your love,
To make it stay?

[Pendragon]

Try "Balancing Act" :)

[PrinceMyshkin]

Yes, Pendragon's suggestion is a good one. My own preference, unless I've either begun with a title that contains the germ of the poem, is often to use the first line as the title, as well as retaining it in place.

But more than that I want to compliment you on the poise and the echo in this of some of the metaphysical poetry of, e.g. John Donne. I wonder, though, if the last lines might not more aptly be:


What must uswe hearts pay?
To keep our love,
To make it stay?

because it did seem through most of the poem that the dilemma was a mutual, shared one?

[kelby_lake]

I think by 'your', I kind of meant plural 'you' :)

[Biggus]

"Love is blind"