You were so coldly keen on settling it
attacks flew elliptically around me, rude dangerous harpies,
no time for proper defense to be mustered.
Eyes and heart and brain can no longer be trusted,
they all believe that I still love you
Our full throttle left-handed attempt at life misfired, of course.
We will not be so easily fooled again, we say as hope is disappearing,
Clinging to scraps of it,
we sink down till we find the self-pity endearing,
scratch our names off the most comforting of sources.
An unlikely twist of providence embraced my attackers
my logic dismantled becomes vinegar in a wound.
Those same forces that once lifted now undo me, mocking
emotional ramparts fall easily to ransackers,
untimid hands pick my veritable pockets.
That bastard fool Integrity is losing ground,
humbled yet again by love’s schemers conniving,
we pried apart small grievances till infection set in,
hoped for reserves of resolve never arriving;
no respite from the grief can be found.