Unrelenting Sentiments Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Unrelenting sentiments,
With kept desires passionate.
Begins again,
On a lamenting journey.
Hoping another to meet,
Will not reject...
Visions of happiness.
The will not prevent.
But accept them expressed.

Yet,
Another to have just met...
Is beset by suspicion.
And left to wonder if,
The treat presented...
Is not a trick to play.

Unrelenting sentiments,
Become persistent...
With personal messages sent.
Some innocently graphic.
And others,
Serious and meaningful.
As if sheathed in steel.
And grounded in cement.

The pursued gives in.
Weakened by flattery.
And mesmerized by the chase.
Erasing past disappointments.
That left one's heart to ache.

Unrelenting sentiments,
To have them heard no more...
Lamented.
Now are replaced.
To leave the hunted,
Thought adored...
By the allure of the captor.
To discover,
Entrapment and resentment...
No longer camouflages,
Why one unrelenting...
With sentimental laments,
Chases a life to fantasize it.
And not the reality,
Of commitment.