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At Times Love Doth Tame (Tanka)

At times love doth tame

At others it bites with fang

Either I cherish

For to live without loving

Is to live an empty life

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Agony Of Love – A Tanka

Agony of love

A hearts beat torn asunder

Ripped from breathing chest

Leaving it hollow and cold

Emptied of any passion

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Stolen Heart – A Tanka

Hostage to passion

I open my heart to you

Like a treasure chest

Only to find it emptied

Riches callously stolen

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Pain

In the throng,

I spied you sitting solo,

Green of the bench,

Accenting your eyes,

You didn’t see me,

Melded into the swarm,

Sadness pooled in your eyes,

Hurt by God knows what,

I wanted to be the one,

Be the penicillin to heal you,

But it was not to be,

Pain came to comfort you,

Thrusting an arm around you,

Mopping dry your crimson stained eyes,

Hand-in-hand you strolled away,

One spartan look,

Cast over your shoulder,

You knew I was there,

Without truly knowing,

But your heart was committed to another,

Committed to Pain…

Of love.

 

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

The Heart Wants

You’ve broken my heart,

Taking what’s left of me,

Grinding me up,

Tossing my ash to the four winds.

Questioning what I saw in you,

I should have listened,

Love is blind,

And so was I.

Reckless and foolish,

Naive perhaps,

But isn’t that how love is,

Without logic,

Without thought,

Utterly ignorant.

They say,

The heart wants,

What the heart wants,

In this lies the only truth.

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~