{"sf1_id":253283,"sf2_id":"ebQ47XW1","title":"The Sorrows of Love","author":"Silverpaw3","words":251,"posted_at":"2011-05-28T04:29:00.000Z","tags":["Clean","Love","Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/253283-the-sorrows-of-love","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ebQ47XW1","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=253283\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"The Sorrows of Love\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\nAs I lay here crying, as I lay here dying\n\nWith great pain I end my sighing.\n\nTo a better world I now embark\n\nFor the one I leave behind is bleak and stark.\n\nStep by step my journey I begin to take\n\nReveling in the dream from which I hope to never wake.\n\nMy trust in man has been shattered\n\nAnd my soul is now beaten and tattered.\n\nWith my heart encased in your ice\n\nI forget what it means to be nice.\n\nWith silent vows to myself I reject all forms of love\n\nFrom now on I shall be the hawk and not again the dove.\n\nIn my world of ice and snow I rebelled against you\n\nUntil one day I saw beauty in the morning dew.\n\nWith a heavy heart I look upon the plights I have wrought,\n\nI look upon the lives I ruined without a second thought.\n\nWith arms outstretched I beg forgiveness for my transgressions\n\nAnd seek to make peace through my concessions.\n\nAt last, at last from my dream I awake, to a world of promise and hope\n\nAnd in which I must struggle not to descend down its treacherous slope.\n\nStill you haunt me to this day with your suffering and pain\n\nWhenever I begin to melt your ice, you return to freeze me again.\n\nThe end is now in sight, your honeyed words no longer hold sway\n\nFor finally I am free from you this bittersweet day.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}