Love lost <br />when is love lost? <br />When fallen kisses and caresses <br />Are shadows on the neck and lip <br />When the other is no more <br />When the fire and spark that drove the piston <br />Are embers alone. <br />When all that is left is that tame salmander <br />Unscathed, uninterested <br />Passion is not to be fired or cooled <br />It is and no more. <br />It is in the taming <br />That love is crucified <br />On a cross of time.<br /><br />Guillermo Veloso<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-lost-33/
