Emotional Buffet 2

I sat apart from life, too weary to live,
Even the breath I owed, I refused to give.

The curse of the world is rightful on me,
I thinned the trees, not the flowers to be.

In the end, the mind grows tired of love’s flame,
I made a firefly my partner in name.

Whatever the cause, it stands as a crime,
I drowned the swimmer in ocean’s prime.

You bartered away the hope of peace true,
And left the heart idle, absorbed in love’s hue.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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