Burning bittersweet
Looking within, him I thought I had found
Who’d root me again firmly to the ground
My mad lonely mind he would help to sway
From strange ethereal worlds far away
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I set out to him cloaked in my best white
Wedded again with a heart full of light
On I went, not knowing me he would smite
Drinking with frenzy from him the mere sight
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Climbing a mountain one can’t stay that high
My heart heaving with the eternal sigh
I embraced, plunged into the other side
It is nothing but life’s tireless tide
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I delve in my mind’s world, arid site
In love’s game I’m always pawn, never knight
Time and time again I heal and invite
Desire, faith, hope, fools tricked by their might
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And even as struck me those warning bells
Sounding my return to those heathen hells
My heart cringed, shriveled, yet again it swells
Oozing so acrid and so ghastly smells
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My burning heart gives me yet no respite
I wake to the dawn of a sleepless night
Turning and tossing from love’s acid bite
It was all only lies, all wrong, not right.