Poison Cup

Drinking in love

as cold, clear water,

But what we had was not enough.

I drank you in like a poison cup.

I kissed you in confusion

and left the same way.

It was a mistake, you said that you left me.

The greatest you'd ever made.

An apology, such a cruel thing to say.

I cannot stand this rejection

clinging to a bitter plank

And your unbearable humility!

Significance slips from me like a broken cistern.

Recklessness words leak from my lips.

From a dry well

I drank a poison cup.

A bitter draught, but I drank you up.

An empty man with no compassion,

perhaps has no love within.

Can I be made that well again?