I loved you as mad as I ever will

Anyone, and you ruined me for all

Who came thereafter, though they did no ill

Except to follow your sordid footfalls
Across the years where I fed my heart

A diet of love and poetry, and belief

It would be alright if I did my part

And just loved you, giving you no grief

In return, but it wasn’t enough, in the end.

And I was told it was wisdom to taste

The dust in my mouth, the ash that burned

In my dry throat. Instead, I went to waste

While bright burned the flame inside my glass

Never forgetting you, first light to last

04/20/2003