Nothing Worth Keeping Comes Without Loss I am a welding rod left; abandoned weathered for years bending, flaking but never breaking left; abandoned in punji pits of romance destroyed; not by your touch nor scent but by a lack of you destroyed but magnificent I am an antique book alive; endangered weathered for years something, fading but never changing alive; endagered by unanswered fires of romance destroyed; not by your careless hands but by a lack of them destroyed but invaluble I am a stone in the breaker deformed; unable weathered for years steady, crying but never dying deformed; unable to walk with you in romance destroyed; not by your rain nor wind but by a lack of you destroyed but immaculate