The legacy of hurt <br />Transcends the bleeding heart <br />To the apprehension of step <br />In the forlorn shadows of pain <br />As lips gone bitter <br />By the taste of rejection <br />Stutters in footpaths of destiny <br />A wounded soldier bearing a flickering torch <br />In the murky battlefields of love <br />As the procreation of love stolen <br />Metamorphoses the leaping heart <br />To a restless craven <br />Once bitten, twice shy<br /><br />Dilantha Gunawardana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/once-bitten-twice-shy-2/
