Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Love’s evil twin May 28, 2012

 


 

Love ain’t perfect

Even dragged down

And doing

The dirty deed in mud,

Or floated like a banner

Of conquest,

A bloody sword

A broken spear,

Bard’s bad poetry

Expended to

Keep his love

Interest from giving

Her purity

To the worms,

No one owns it

Though it often

Gets lost or mistaken

For its nasty twin

Lust,

All men crave it

Like me might gold,

Too scared we might

Never find it,

We settle for one

When it is the other

We want

Pain intolerable,

Starvation worse

Than death,

Sadder than life,

Deeper than any other

Sea we might sail,

You and me.


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