A Veil of Fate

The unkindly fate that veils the lover’s future
Such is the barbarous condition of new love
The imitative exercises of lost-loves past
Forgotten from the mind of mortal beings
Who fall in love, hook, line and sinker
Again and again and again and again and with
The coming of a new love comes the dream
That led them by subtle ascension to trust
One-another while the horizon momentarily
Broadened for the chance of a lasting love while
Shutting their eyes to complex possibilities of failure
According the power and the opportunity of fate
And the shining contempt of life that leads
The believer to self-denial of a failed love possible

poem by William Cavanagh
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