When the communication stalls

Who (of two) is the bigger fool?

Is it the one who professed love?

Or is it the one who stayed above?



Love spoken as a way to heighten

Feelings, during passion, brightens

But when it is spoken without truth

Then love exists not, and is uncouth



And when, later, things come to a head

Those feelings are stifled - full of dread

For a love which never really existed

But only exhibited passion, fully consisted



Of a falsity of feelings without any merit

But even tho, the two continued to share it

Bodies entwined ... in a truly empty passion

Enjoined in intense pleasure, but out of fashion



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

9:12am Mon. Jan. 26, 98