Love Zircon Poem by Jos- -siea

A diamond like find in a charcoal burdened field
Was special
Such that it's zirconia yield
Was forgotten, overlooked
Such that my lens was a shield
From a truth that I knew
But denied out of hope
And I slid to the bottom
And I swung on the rope

Because I couldn't let go,
since I didn't know for sure

If the warning when we met
was small enough to ignore

But I never did and was reminded
Day in and day out
That loyalty is dead
With small betrayals that sprayed out

With a composition ever-changing
You consistently criticized,
From day to night
With each new set of eyes

And I told you about it,
So you lost your composure
How dare someone as imperfect as me
Have the gall to make this exposure

So now I sit reminded again,
Keep your enemies far
And don't make them friends

Or anything more than a passing glance
If ever you let one in
You take yourself to the lance

And I'm lucky now that it's happened no later
And I'm lucky for my past,

A staggering stance
But without it I would've died from a hidden love-hater

And love which exists in every vocabulary
Is overused and withered
Misunderstood,
tributary

To something unnamed, something that splintered
From the freedom, and judge-less nature of the original fragment
With the pure nature stopped, frozen, and wintered
It's an unpinnable nature,
and boundary-less attachment