"Love's Ravage"

What we will put ourselves through
only not to the extremes
some randoms went to
to rule out these lovers for you
before you've even met...

until the unrealized dreams of those scorned
prompted them to send them to you.

Love's ravage:
it consumes whatever feelings we have left;
immune to love
we face a worse affliction...

We're unknowing carriers of a history uncertain
that we're all bound to by a lack of attrition 
somehow convincing ourselves we shouldn't have to settle for anything but the best...

Perfection.



Love's ravage consumes
but when we have no feelings
that makes us inured
so those of us most savage are the ones among us
least fazed by our lovers being so enamored
we take leave of them. 
so we have to take leave of them.