Calypso and Cupid seem at a war <br />Which dearer vice has conquered me? <br />Is it my passions' wrath burst from my core, <br />Or the strike which was not meant to be? <br /> <br />Stealing your heart means leaving mine as the prize, <br />What more tender conquering has the world known? <br />Yet the losses tally so much greater in size <br />When the world still stands and you fall alone. <br /> <br />I have fallen in battle against both friend and foe, <br />Neither distinguished from the others' guise <br />Truthful lies, tender passion; if it comes, it will go <br />It is a dearer truth to say my love's despised. <br /> <br />This is less than nothing; more than all <br />And the closer I hold you, the further I fall.<br /><br />Heather Marie Mortimer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/calypso-and-cupid/
