Reward

For love honest, undying and sincere: a reward of longing, fatal, eternal and unrelenting

For hope, vaulting from the depths of trauma: a reward of distance, distant, draining defeat and unfailing

For trust, implacable and resolute: a reward of chicanery, chaotic and dubious uncertainty.

Despair is beyond repair when love looks away from the tears of a beloved... having induced it.

Dreams are doomed when its pursuit crushes the spirit repeatedly.

Hope is hushed forever now as the smiles and kisses that tended it snarl and kick unerringly. 

Love when I last checked was to be rewarded with love and togetherness... perhaps.

A G K

11 October, 2020