Swinging Doors

You walk in and you walk out. The only thing that shows that you have been there is the doors you leave swinging behind you, and the mark on my heart. There is no such thing as getting over it. You can move on and find someone new. All that does is put a band-aid on the wound that is already there. Once you let someone into your heart and they walk away there is still part of them left. It is a scar that they leave when they rip away. It is a scar that no ointment can help fade and time doesn't heal it. All that happens is it sits there til someone comes along and pierces the scar tissue again and it hurts worse than when it was put there.

What are we supposed to do? Should we keep walls up and never take a chance on love or friendship? They say it is better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all... Is that true or are we just hurting ourselves more than we have to?

Do we leave our life up to chance? Take chances and then hope that it will be easier this time to let go if we have to? Is love even worth it? How do we know if it's real? How do we know that there aren't going to be swinging doors left behind when we walk away? How do you put closure to a relationship and not allow those feeling to come back? Is there the ability to giving a second chance after you have been hurt? Can you really let that person back in and not have all that scar tissue cause problems. We can want it with all our heart and mind but is it really realistic? Is there such thing as a second chance? Or do we just let the doors come to a stop and pad lock them??