Love Superficial (aka Hollywood Romance)

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Open Poetry #38

Love Superficial (aka Hollywood Romance)

troubadour
Junior Member

since 2006-02-09

Posts 43
in the land of yore

0 posted 2006-05-25 10:40 AM

Love untrue and superficial,
The vainest sparkle holds;
Decanted into an ornate pot
On a stage of velvet folds.

Take a curtsey, bend a bow,
So glamorous the show;
When the curtain falls and the thrill is gone -
Remains an empty row.

False Love slips past the brocade folds
And silent drifts away;
To leave but dried and empty shell
Of hardened, bitter clay.

In vain to lash with weathered tongue
What lies on tablet cold —
For Love that has been freely traded
As a brick of common gold.

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