Your warm hello hid the memory

of countless goodbyes,

your charming smile hid the tears

you caused along your cool way,

your beloved carefree manner

hid the sadly shuffled steps

of those you coldly discarded.

and at some odd meeting point

lust and desire crumbled swiftly,

a castle built on shifting sands,

leaving only the pale memory

of a rose-scented love affair,

laced with broken goblets,

cooling ashes in a fireplace,

and a heart bleeding noiselessly.