Loved and Lost

(a gen-x sonnet)

"’Tis better to have loved and lost…” my ass!  
For pain is born in losing what was known.  
Few pains there are that losing love surpass,  
So I would leave the loss of love alone.  
 
I never thought that I would lose my heart,  
I held no thought in thinking love was real.  
In thoughtless love I watched my heart depart,  
With painful thought, I watched real love reveal.    
 
And unaware she gained my fickle love,  
But thinking me a true and thoughtful friend,  
Until my love was all she could think of,  
And thinking both our love and like should end.  
 
  So I would think, in thinking love, refrain;  
  That loss in blissful ignorance remain