Malingering Love

Once, sweet, unassuming persona so demure Morphing into arrogant, calculating figure Dexterous curves dancing like marionette Now wilting shroud; prancing silhouette Full, rounded cheeks with rosy shadow Devolved into sunken crevasses with hue so sallow Full, lustrous lips distilling frothy, sweet nectar Transformed into dull, recessive spouts brimming with tar From twinkling eyes stardust did flow Now only flittering sawdust doth strew Your warm, sensual fingers did titillate Now dry, brittle tendrils do stagnate Sparkling, coiffed hair with gilded braids Became disheveled bristles with dulling shades Soft, entrancing words did enrapture Now dull, discordant notes obscure