I have abandoned love,
for it takes all and gives
nothing back and it
controls the lover
but will not be controlled.
Love turns the lover
around and around
in painful expectation,
and so I give love
away and spurn its
acid tender ways
that burn and
only leave scars.
And once abandoned
I am free to live
beyond love and
far from the claws
that have painfully
pieced my heart
and left me in this
bleeding bloody
painful mess.
11/3/2017