You once said I was the most passionate man you'd ever known

And yet - even having said that - you've now kindly shown

Me the door - and after due course, quickly sent me packing

For what we became to each other - was found to be lacking



And here I have sat now for this past month, alone and sad

Knowing well it could not have worked, yet there is a tad

Of gloom when I think back to all we were to each other

And the fire we both breathed as together we did smother



Our rational thinking in a tide of our emotional needs

Which sang so with our combined heat, our hearts did bleed

And the desire you saw in me as you encouraged my moves

Fanned me ever further and thus made me want so to prove



The Love I felt so very deep in my heart, mind and soul

Which I wanted to share with you forever, as we got old

But you saw not this beautiful and picturesque vision

For it did not fit in with your scheme, as your decision



Was to turn your back on the most passionate man you'd known

And to go back to a life filled with unease at your home

Making us the most wonderful partners in love who did ever

Share the beauty of unbridled passion who could not see

                                               forever ...



- Tristram