Love Poem: On Not Lamenting Your Lover
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Written by: Nola Perez

On Not Lamenting Your Lover

You imagined his love an antidote
not an addiction to enslave you, 
but when the spiral you were in, left you 
with a splintered heart, that fragile part 
surrendered when you laid down 
your arms you became a junkie for his em-
brace,you wore a monkey on your back, 
you were an abyss of unworthiness. 

Yet in the finality of it all when 
you were back upon the shelf, know 
you did not fall to Love,  but to 
the Shadow self.  It's not the same, 
so brook no  blame, and bless 
the one who stayed, and stayed again. 
Bless him who embraced both 
shadow and the sun.