Love Poem: Pointless
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Written by: Catherine Reinke

Pointless

I don’t really understand
my heart.
Never have
nor could  I try,
even from the start.

For chooses it,
it is  never I,
not one  from another
to love -
now it is  you
 I sadly sigh.

Why?
 To question again?
Not at all, I.
Useless.
Pointless.
To reason away.

For once loves spell
and cupids bow fastened secure
in heart,
both pain and joy are felt.

Useless.
 Pointless.
To reason away.

To whom the others
my love affect,
know I yet,
undo not-
nor forget.
.
Useless.
 Pointless.
To reason away.
Selfish desire I admit.

My soul did  you revitalize
this aging  body seat.
For  I believed
 love forever,
given by cupids bow:
would not  find favor-again
in my sour bitter meat.

For once  I did  lose,
when love so quickly struck
deep her cupids  arrow.  

 My lesion unhealed
the arrow broken
 remains
 naught to pluck.

Repair I know
 never this heart.
For when you-
another 
did strike my sneering soul
to bleed afresh 
my wound did make. 

Two arrows
pierce 
the writer  of this verse.
One is recent
the other done.

I however 
with wisdom will 
not allow
 this love to kill.

For know  I well 
this love-too
no fruit can  come.
For it  bears

no blossom.

No sweet smell 
to fill my soul.
Breath in.

Restore.

Rather only
potential
and nothing more.

Knowing this
remove I shall
if not cupids cruel bow
as no mortal man, can .
Knowing this 
remove I shall 
the pain it stuck.

Loves illusion
From this man.

A sweet pill 
 to forget. 

I search and dedicate 
This to find
And will 
erase you
from my mind.