When the cost of love is hard to teach

Is love worth the savage pain of grief
As the caterpillar gnaws the patient leaf?
Is love  worth deformed and broken hearts?
When will come  acceptance,pain depart?

Is love worth the pain and woe we feel
When illness from the wife her husband steals?
Is  love real and what is its intent
Do we read the messages we’re sent?

Should we live   indifferent ,grey, unreached
Is the cost of love too hard to teach
Is love given  or taken by a war?
Who are all those walls and  bombs  made for?

Should we remain invulnerable to touch
When love’s an attitude and not a crutch?