So Much Death And So Little Love

Fragile and crumbling Like an autumn leaf, I desperately tried To question her heart Like appealing to a deity, Whether there was still Any remembrance of love That could keep us clinging To a relationship adrift In a galaxy of misery Or bogged down In a field of defeat. With the courage Of a dying woman With nothing left to protect, She told me The only feelings that remain Are feelings of regret; And she cut me loose Like dead cumbersome weight That threatened or survival. I never had More anguish in my eyes While gazing at the anguish In the eyes of another.