Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

Fated To Love

Fated to Love


Best to simply weigh the heart with a poppy seed
Counter balance on granite
All its rhythmical surging
Its expeditious life
Amounts to nothing

Better then, not to believe in its enchantment
For it is fated to love
And do little else but lead
To ruin

Well-worn to stop up your ears
Lest you hear its background murmurings 
Brooding upon devotion
Lacking the power to change anything
But weeps constantly for dreams

Do not then, be deceived
For all the hearts will to achieve
It cannot
But burst inside your veins
Only half remembering what once you never held
Though its truth persists
It lays persecutory back against a lie
The heart would try
But cannot defy the world

Beware then my friends
For that muscular aorta pump and valve
Will lay you stark
And rend open beneath your ribs
And grant you no solace
Or escape

For all in the life of steady beats
It knows nothing of fact
And through your nights survival
Will stab at you with yearning
Brooking no compromise
It shall continue
Craving

Damnable heart I say
To leave me no place to rest
If I could but tear it out

For it taints my eyes with longing
Converting my hours for its keeping
Playing poker faced with deliverance
Trying to cheat destiny
With the price it paid to see me

Counting the cost in when’s
And when
When all the loneliness
Will end

Beware of when; then my friends
For that muscular ventricle pump and valve
Will lay you star-dream-gathering
And break open daily beneath your ribs
And yield to you no solace
But only escapism

Damnable heart I say
To leave me no place to rest
If I could but tear it out

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Laurie Ginn June 30, 2009 at 7:13 PM I was so compelled to the end when I finished I gasped for air. "Damnable heart I say To leave me no place to rest If I could but tear it out" this phrase in particular puts me in mind of poems I've read in my teens. I guess you can tell I liked it, ha not only did I like it but enjoyed it extremely, going to favs, smashing dear Col

Brandy Megens June 30, 2009 at 5:17 PM i love you and your wprk you know this colin you are an amazing talent soon to blossom it falls gently upon deaf ears but somehow they haer well thanks for the comment

Hyle Chu June 30, 2009 at 4:56 PM Dare to feel and it will show you pain. All who love are doomed. What fate doesn't take from you, death will. It's a sad world inside that "muscular ventricle pump and valve". But, why rip it out when you know the best way to kill it is to fall into another relationship? There's a world of women out there, and you got your work cut out for you. Chop-chop.