By Duke
Date: 2002 Feb 17
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Love's Lost Sadness

       LOVE'S LOST SADNESS

Come four A.M. black stillness keep.
Long-shadowed nights, dreaded fear to sleep.
To battle once more mind's bleak darkness deep,
Neither wrong nor right, left 'lone to weep.
Left 'lone again with unsated desire,
What can I do to unflame this fire?

A dream turned nightmare consuming flesh and soul,
In misery I toil  - maddening sadness my toll.
Another day perhaps  - or two, maybe three,
No call forthcoming  - no face to see.
Sweet embrace gone unanswered  - a decaying memory
Of blue-green eyes oft framed by love,
A sight to all but lost to me.