June 19--Some Say Love...

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.  --Xiaolu Guo

    I recognized this quote as a song lyric, and here it is: "The Rose" sung by Bette Midler and written by Amanda McBroom...

… Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed

… Some say love, it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower
And you, its only seed

… It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance

… It's the one who won't be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul, afraid of dying
That never learns to live

… When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong

… Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose

    If you click on the title/link above, you can listen. You may cry. I did.

        Leta