Love tempt me no more
Bind not my feet to strange chains
And my heart to forbidding stone
Long have you toyed with me
Deluded my wild senses
And blinded my puny affections
Long have you misled me senseless
And made me believe I could have
What was never meant to be mine
Must you leave me bereft of all joy
Must you torment my every living moment
Must you always darken my doorstep
With your unwelcome craven shadow
You made me wield the pen
And weave a landscape endowed
With your essence, its every strand
Enmeshed in your bewitching snare
A honeyed trap and no more
For an unsuspecting fool poet
A prisoner to my very own words
A mute witness to those who left
You leave behind many a memory
Of what could only have come to pass
You promised and yet you forbade
Seizing every insignificant gift you could
Dark nights and even darker thoughts
Have you rendered on my soul and mind
Till at last I have lost
All but abject guilt and shame
Your prey now tires of the game
Pray now let me escape this endless void
I shall now glide away singing
An elegy to unrequited love
