Loves Tragedy

My heart once filled with illustrious gold

Is now tattered and filled with holes

For love’s war has taken it toll

A flag or scroll, torn and old

From this battle of attrition I want to fold

It wasn’t done by one

This damage cumulative, from all battle scars tallied a total of their sums

Punic wars won, Trojan horse attacks that couldn’t be undone

Year after year I look past the warnings of prophets and seers

Lovers and friends alike a great show they played, but in the end they struck like Commodus with a poisonous blade

A gladiator of love, I fought valiantly and brave.

Akin to Maximus my heart and spirit were left wounded and frayed

I won’t cry for being betrayed

In the end I only wish one ally would have stayed

Now alone, I take a final bow

Head heavy with a slow stride to Elysian Fields I make way

I’ll spend my last days like a grazing cow

Stumbling off into the sunset my blood trail remains

Dying out of sight is what I vow