Your Lightness Of Being Poem by Conrad Lee

Before we part for bliss for cheers,
Allow me some words displeasing to your ears -
That there's something lacking in your make
And your being the lightness of the air,
With which love's responsibility you'll never bear.

Like butterfly which flutters from flowers to flowers all,
You never seem to take roots but scrape the nectar you're looking for.
Life's for you a feast and I a cake,
You praise me but for a moment I savours well,
Cake's eaten I've nothing left and you've nothing more to tell.

Why such shallowness should hide beneath your deep dark eyes,
Your wantoness your stately looks belies.
You well know that it's not for lightness sake,
The while I took my plunge with you I knew I'd be broken or whole
By that one choice within you've tossed it away from your careless soul.

If God may grant that our loves be weighed in balance of a scale,
Your airy element topples to work me ill.
Your sweetness erstwhile is transient and fake,
And now at the road's parting you smile and me embraced
In due time hasten to seek and harass a brand new pretty face.

Enough! enough! what good it does to stir your angers on,
Regrets are useless, in a moment I would soon be gone.
My only wish is that an advice you would take -
That love's not items collected to grace your store
But one taken, others forsaken and cherish forevermore