#31- "The Pain Caused By Love"

When I see you my heart doth skip a beat

across a thousand miles of Love's great sea.

I see dark passion when our eyes do meet

As if your love were like lightning to me,



'Round the black, charred flesh of my broken heart

The frost sticks to me from your cold shoulder.

I would take to my throat and poisen dart

To spend my life with you and grow older.



But you always drive into me a stake

causing sorrow, grief, and terrible pain.

You! You seek only for my heart to break

into a thousand pieces you'll retain.



       Now I lie wounded by your weapon, strife,

       Unconscious in the ambulance of life.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Composed for a sonneteer contest on the subject of Love.  

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