You are <br />The blazing flame <br />That ignites my cloistered insanity <br />As a man consumed <br />By infatuation <br />Walks down a footpath <br />Paved of fictitious hope <br /> <br />Maddened by subtle bursts of chemicals <br />Inebriated by an irresistible desire <br />Fueled by near-sighted obsession <br />Walking on a tight rope <br />On a field of erect nine-inch nails <br /> <br />Oh the tragedy <br />When the guise of love <br />Swindles <br />Your magnetized soul <br />As the promise of a luscious oasis <br />Metamorphoses <br />To a duplicitous mirage <br />With no magical springs of hope <br />Nor the fruits of love <br /> <br />As the trail of a goddess <br />Disappears <br />To leave the fractured heart <br /> On a path of restoration <br />With the superglue <br />Of passing time <br /> <br />For true love is an elixir <br />Yet infatuation is not <br />An innocuous pill<br /><br />Dilantha Gunawardana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/placebo-effect-of-love/
