Singers sing about it
And writers write,
painters paint
Creative versions
     of love.

Memories expressed
Pain suppressed
Blurred lines between this love
and a torturous punishment
of the treacherous kind.

A testing trial of doubt
mistrust and frayed strings.
A problem of the heart to which there is no solution.

They've tied their happiness with another,
and risked a ruined life of
Half fulfilled wishes
and broken dreams.

Even in victory there is the cloudy feeling of loss
a sense of dimming hope
Wafting fumes of that last chance
blown
          out... . .

Wallowing in self-pity
wanting to rekindle that flame
and return again to reclaim

Your heart.