Fluctuant

FLUCTUANT

All lovers speak alike
Through the ages dark and fair
Mould their lips to what can please
Gilded tongues praise
Your beauty, their life-blood
Your presence, now Paradise
And your care, their only goal.

All lovers will levy,
Everything to be
Laid at their feet.
All time must stop
Save those moments
Of sanctioned pleasure
Ignore the urgent summons
Deny other claims.

All others named superfluous
In an instant, vain logic said
Their presence risks contamination
Of your exquisite happiness
Your love so pure
Of your undisturbed shared sleeps.

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The hourglass dispersed its burden
The grains marking the dance of Time
No storms blew in from strange lands
No clouds on the horizon
Menacing your shared joy
Yet the seasons changed
As they will, first spring
Then summer gone.

Bells sweetly pealing in your dreams,
Now heralded the bellows
Of winter's wake-up sounds.
Other signs no longer
Gainsaid or denied
Winter's icy fingers
Tearing the gossamer filaments
Holding your passion
First one, then many.

All thoughts of shared lives
Flee in the face of mutations
All charms now shrivel, slump
Before eyes blinded by snow
Bodies weary of fighting gales
House no warm emotions
Forever is a cursed word
And the future holds no charms
Save for those enjoyed alone.

This song's surely a mournful tune
It has no moral or rule
Brings no balm for lovers scorned
Yet bears a small redemption
For it whispers to you and yours
And to those who once were yours
'Tis better to have lost your love
In the right season, and healed in time
Than to have loved until Loss
Overspent its allowance,
Stole from Hope, and
Wagered away all seasons to come.

THE END