Kurt Ravidas Poet Rhyme

Four Elements

How bottomless you are, the lonely hell,
how dark and joyless, but the love I fell
in is much deeper. Oh, four words you said
so unexpectedly that my ink bled,
four elements, four natures of despair -
the water of my tears, the smoky air
of sleeplessness, the fire in my loins,
the earth of desperation that adjoins
insanity – the words you said in lieu
of reasons to break up: "I don’t love you".
How that can be? It was just yesterday
you vowed that… I go mad, I go astray
in most abysmal precipices of 
my hell in search of you, my faithless love.

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Robert Lindley December 9, 2019 at 7:42 PM As usual my friend, truly unique and exceptional poetry. "Oh, four words you said so unexpectedly that my ink bled, four elements, four natures of despair - the water of my tears, the smoky air of sleeplessness, the fire in my loins, the earth of desperation that adjoins insanity – the words you said in lieu" FANTASTIC... A FAV.. Kurt Ravidas December 10, 2019 at 7:03 AM Thank you, Robert. All 4 elements of me bow to you with gratitude)

Connie Marcum Wong December 9, 2019 at 3:23 AM I wanted this to go on and on Kurt. No one writes like you, which is meant as a highest compliment! Lines 4-7 were astounding! So glad to read your work again? xxoo Kurt Ravidas December 10, 2019 at 7:00 AM Thank you so much, dear Connie. That's really a highest compliment to me. As Nabokov said, the writer has nothing but his style)

Kurt Ravidas December 8, 2019 at 1:51 PM Long time no see. Glad to see you again, lads)