The light of your radiance has begun to pale
The golden parasol spawned in your prime now tarnished by silver mail
Your effervescent shine now eviscerated by a callous shell
Your passionless glare disbands our symmetrical estate nail by nail
Your youthful complexion scourged by a strain that is pallid and stale
Your brimming border now encircled by a stolid trail
Your free-flowing, gilded mane now saddled; slowed gait, you aimlessly flail
Your shielded hearth no longer an incubating swell
The residual heat can no longer the cooling tides quell
Your sunny stanzas now the purview of a discordant nightingale
The obstacle to our rapproachement a summit to high to scale
Your coarsening atoll now ringed with deep craters; my shallow mind dare not assail
Your lifeless orbit stranded in the dark shadows; a temporal hell
The dying embers quenched and shrouded by a murky veil
Soiling, sin stains bleach the fabric of my inner being
Serrated path is dotted with my continual missteps
Shady thoughts shudder my raven mind
Salty, brackish inclinations evaporate into my sane senses
Silty apparitions clutter then corrode my night visions
Sultry, lucid desires are embedded in my dark imagination
Seductive thoughts race through my coarsening intellect
Shifting eyes refract the availing light
Sordid deeds exponentially multiply my misery
Searing indiscretions bracket my dampening conscience
Shrouding gloom eclipses my vexed heart
Soaring guilt pulsates through my jaded psche
Shallow cares flood then drown my resolve
Satiating peace flees from my corrupt estate
Shielding grace is obfuscated by my compounding feelings of inadequacy
Spawning mercy is blighted by my wicked, cankerous condition
Sanctifying balm rubs raw my callous, iniquitous sores
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