Lover's Lament

Barbwire garrotes
An ignorant heart
Cruor tipped barbs
Impale like a dart
Deceit spues from
Saccharine sweet lips
Dark, arduous
Like molasses drips

Come, lover,
Invoke more
Bittersweet so
Worth vying for
A simpleton has
No reason to beware
Surrender keen
In a passionate affair

Kept imbalanced
A distorted scale
Too proud to admit
Love’s epic fail
Like all dreams of
White picket fences
Drawing first blood
Leverages defenses