Melancholic Lover

8:58 PM

The beginning of an end

led her to thinking

maybe love was

what she mastered

but had no one

to give it to

She was a museum

full of preserved art

but he had his eyes closed

and his heart blank

and his mind dull

and his mouth shut

The melody of her heartbeat

steadily leaping at his sight

the melancholic lover

who was dimmed by fright

the melancholic lover

who was drowned without a fight