Love Poem: The Vanishment of Passion
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Written by: John Beam

The Vanishment of Passion

Furtive blue eyes do glance away to hide,                                                                                                                                                  a sobbing heart, behind nonchalant smiles                                                                                                                                           
An eked out feint at normalcy tried,                                                                                                                                               
shallow for the imponderable trails,                                                                                                                                                        of the overly grievous splintered heart                                                                                                                                                       The ascetic mind in endless saudade,                                                                                                                                                 
reels for comfort, then tears itself apart                                                                                                                                                For all the love sung, why this miserable coda                                                                                                                                         I find myself, grasping for the phantasm                                                                                                                                            
My hand, as empty as my loneliness,                                                                                                                                                while my love flows, into the grand chasm                                                                                                                                         Now humble, with unsympathetic lowliness                                                                                                                                           The swirling digress of gloomy emotions,                                                                                                                                             cast more pains into the hurtful potions