This Poem was Submitted By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2000-04-09 12:13:35 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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What Came to be Lost

                        Because he kissed ambition on the lips,                          Decided virtue did not profit him                         Bore nothing actual on naked hips;                         He lunged for life in massive, empty ways.                         Because he shouted at the gentle days                         He made the sun his foe-companion night;                         Banished passion from his charted flight                         He can no longer linger in amaze.                         He has forgotten all he ever knew                         of ardor, and the thrill of parting pain                         the value of a docile drop of dew                         the tribute of a soft, capricious rain;                         of sticky silences, wet matted moss--                         He lost the very knowledge of his loss.                                                       

Copyright © April 2000 Rachel F. Spinoza

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