WHAT HAS LOVE?

WHAT HAS LOVE

Ricardo Antonio Garcia

I have fought the World

with my poetic Wisdom and Grace

and honed the blade of my Sword

knowing that I rarely will take a prisoner.

A Knight of the Light

against the darkened eyes

of mankind’s misdeeds.

Tonight

I place my Sword in its sheath

and I contemplate love.

What has love

that it makes someone pain so

as if I intruded

my body with a blade

sacrificing my life

for a metaphoric feeling sublime.

I am forced

to feel empathy over tears.

I am a proud man

striking cold hearts down

walking away

as their bones burn into embers.

What has love

that I am not immune?

What has love

that it humbles me to my knees?

I have slaughter foes in battle

won the Crown

and my esteem is held high

but God I cannot shake

this traveling sensation in my veins

that twists and tortures my heart.

I have fought the World

Now the World fights me internally

What has

a beauteous woman done?

What have I said

that turns me inward in this fate?

She will never see me this way

in a state of tears for love.

God stop this horrendous torture

and this is love?

This – impassioned cry disturbing the rock.

This- demurity and feminine stalk of the wilderness.

Shall I end my own misery?

Or shall I

take her into my arms and float in this abyss?

What has love

that it makes someone pain so?

I pray.