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.