PERISHED
IN HUMAN LOVE MY HEART DROWNEDSTRUGGLING FOR AIR, IT LASHED AROUND
IN HUMAN LOVE MY HEART BROKE
NOT A KNIFE DID THE DEED, A WORD, MURDERED IT AT A STROKE!
IN HUMAN LOVE MY HEART SHATTERED BECAME RUBBLE
PEICES EVERYWHERE, SOME LARGE SOME WERE JUST A CRUMPLE
IN HUMAN LOVE MY HEART WAS DAMAGED
I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE HOW I MANAGED
SOME PIECES I PICKED, HOLDING IN MY HANDS
SOME WERE LOST FOREVER IN UNKNOWN LANDS
IN HUMAN LOVE THO' I SAW FLAWS, PAIN AND FIRE
I COULD NOT RESIST, FOR MY NEED WAS DIRE
HUMAN LOVE THAT HAS NO SHADE OF THE DIVINE
HAS THE INTOXICATION OF MERELY THE EARTH'S WINE
IN HUMAN LOVE MY HEART PERISHED
THEY SAY, HEARTS ARE MEANT TO BE CHERISHED
WHAT WAS THIS? THIS SOFT CARESSING WHISPER
TOO WEARY TO HOLD ON , TERRIFIED IT WOULD DISAPPEAR
A FEELING SO SUBLIME IT WAS JUST BARELY FELT
TOUCH MY GRIEVING HEART. FROM THE HEART ALL AGONY DID MELT
THE AWARENESS THAT DESCENDED FROM ABOVE
SEVERED HUMAN NEED, POURING IN MY HEART DIVINE LOVE
WINGS WERE GRANTED TO MY POOR LOVE
LIKE AN ARROW FINDING ITS MARK IT ROSE ABOVE
IN HUMAN LOVE I WAS NO MORE, THE FIRE PUT OUT
I NOW KNOW THE MYSTERY.I AM NOT. ALL IS WITH-OUT
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SORRY
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