Inverted Chivalry

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You love with a love

That is provoked by scenes

Of simple intimacy

But you've loved lately with a love

That is smeared by pure physicality

That is diminishing the cherished memory

Of singularity

You've lost your faith in the feministic honor

That once was a treasure so

Easy to acquire that it was

Abused into being

I--mag--I-nary

That is scary.

You sought love and affection but

Have received no such soft tension

You infatuate the thought of past

People brought back

Like an empty casket

You try to lay your bones to rest,

Weary and cold with forevermore

Forlorn that it sticks just like a thorn

You wear that crown

Of thorny regrets so well

Please stop, dear

Your soul is so bright

You love with a love that you keep locked away

Until you find that key

Under this thorny crown you shall stay.