Unresolved

Deceit wears a Janus face

Veiled in an angelic façade

Whose fixed smile

Apes magnetized mesmerism;

Unhappiness breeds contempt

Teasing innocence

Into its woven web of misery;

Morality, not favored nor desired,

Decays in the cocooned cell

Created in the web’s confining labyrinth;

Compassion, a stranger of instinct,

Fails to be learned; suffering relieved

Only by that of others—what greater healing

Than injecting such on those once loved?

Bereft of reasoning, misery seeks itself

And forgiveness remains an elusive discovery;

Tears, an unemotional exhaust of afterthought

Leave a cracked mirroring sheen.

How long before the reservoir of grief

Runs dry and the cistern of love empties;

Pray to tell my darling one, how long?