Love Poem: Abandon All Your Hope
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Written by: Victor Buhagiar

Abandon All Your Hope

“Holding on is believing that there's only a past; letting go is knowing that there's another future.”  Author unknown.

Make no bones about it. I shall never want you,
Don't waste your love on someone worthless like me.

All is lost like a fat candle lit in bright sunlight, 
Wasted as a dewdrop falling in the sea;
It's as pointless as a cold snowflake
Settling on freezing Mount Everest.

I'm deaf and dumb to your spirit, 
Perhaps I'm stone blind or have a rock instead of a heart.
Don't blame yourself; my soul is ravished by tempests past
That rage was like a tornado inside me.

I try to dredge the ancient hates.
That left me stubborn and blind, 
Swept by the hurricanes of old loves, 
An anger whirling like a rushing wind,

I weave a shade dark and benighted
To smother all that's bad.
Alas, the end result is that I cannot love.
I'm just indifferent.  Do I make myself clear?

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