In what garden of error <br />Is there greater despair <br />Than the substitute <br />For love's pure bloom? ... <br /> <br />Which is the open wound <br />In an immovable ground <br />That makes of love a weed <br />To depart whilst it bleeds? ... <br /> <br />The lie is disclosed <br />Defrauded-exposed <br />The diamond-only glass <br />Which falls from truth-then cracks... <br /> <br />False friend-fly from me! <br />Or I will away from thee <br />While the surface blistered still <br />My broken dream- I cannot heal... <br /> <br />Silence lie-perish and be gone <br />Much of life is yet condone <br />When from past shall present borrow <br />This burden shall weigh less of sorrow...<br /><br />Romeo Della Valle<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/unveiled-7/
