threnody begins to play, it reverberates deep within
the visceral chamber that once held my heart and
all the love that we once shared.
A darkly romantic love filled with decadent
and licentious pleasures at times, but always
with truth and understanding for we were two souls
destined to connect and meant to be forever.
Avarice our love grew in sumptuous splendor as
we shared the depths of a lover’s rhapsody,
we overcame the arduous task of letting each other
into the deepest reaches of our very beings.
Then one day to our chagrin our love could no
longer grow; the sunlight had faded into a deathly
pallor of midnight darkness. Your love and heart
had now become mordant and filled with asperity.
My own heart caustic and invidious because when
you left it became tepid and languid until finally I
slowly watched it die. Every night a soliloquy would
unfold remembering back to each moment in your arms.
Your final kiss was more deadly than nightshade
for it was that last touch of your lips that poisoned
my heart condemning it never to love again.
As I stood at the monochrome casket strewn with
sanguine and claret roses where my heart lies I
heard your evanescent voice whisper one last time
“I love you.”
In the beauty of this caliginous crepuscule evening
I watched the casket that bears my heart and my
amaranthine love for you lowered into the ground
where they will forever lie in eternal unrest as this
requiem for my heart now comes to an end.
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