Maybe I’m trying too hard To mean something Perhaps she is already gone And me dumping My paltry, pathetic, Precipitous prose Like a deluge of desperate Upon a dead rose Can’t dispose of her silent Indifferent Existence Each moment Eternal Futile Resistance In listlessness I must revert To the written, The only way I’ve Ever understood Smitten With souls, And personas, And psyches, And signs With the auras exuding True beauty’s Confines But with her it is more Than an infatuation With mere metaphysical Intoxication