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Failed Love

from the early notebook

Adoration arouses desire —
a pool of eager passion, lust, and fire.

Optimism leads to longing,
a sense of bliss, of utter belonging.

Attraction, love, and caring compassion
are bent when love’s light is out of fashion.

Once-tender caring breeds contentment,
transformed through time to bitter resentment.

Irritation combines with anguish;
love’s hopeless depression reverts to languish.

A dreaded torment lurks within the heart —
exasperated, agitated, hope slowly departs.

Left with nothing but grief and misery,
love is lost, unable to be seen.

shadowshining · poems by ethank