Love Is Signed To Lies

Awake from a slumber
Raise head above parapet.
You then stand stock-still, a sad
Sorry being. 

Live your days
And soon months as a shadow.
An unreachable figure.

Why speak? You're not profound
Do not dream as a Rimbaud,
Or long for a Verlaine.
It's the ending you fear.

That time passed speaks off a yearning
And wallowed in romance. Love becomes
A strange thing that twists and cuts.

For what we call love 
Is but the shudder of lust 
On any youth's shoulder.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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February 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM
Nice... There are many great lines in this poem...Good work my friend....:JP]
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