Because occasionally poetry helps with all things.

[green_dreams]

PASSER MORTUUS EST

Death devours all lovely things:
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness, — presently
Every bed is narrow.

Unremembered as old rain
Dries the sheer libation;
And the little petulant hand
Is an annotation.

After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Just because it perished?

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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For the sake of explicit clarity; no, I am not having relationship issues. Everybody relax.

Comments

[dgg.livejournal.com]

Well thank goodness for the disclaimer :o)

But you are not going Torrie angsty-goth on us are you?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Angst would mean I was enjoying being unhappy, right? So ghad no. This is lovely cheerful stuff. :)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

*slaps forehead* ...would you believe it took me until now to parse that as a diminutive of "Toreador" rather than of "Torrain"?

[dgg.livejournal.com]

*lol*

I tend to do that sometimes too.

[tlatzomia.livejournal.com]

You found it!!

[torrain.livejournal.com]

snakey found it.

Tangentially, his Google=fu is starting to frighten me.

[tlatzomia.livejournal.com]

That is some made Google-fu!

[karina-vb.livejournal.com]

Mad, even. *facepalm*

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* There are complicated reasons why I like that.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I was gonna ask! Being the first to know this kind of thing is usually important!

[iclysdale.livejournal.com]

You're always the last to know, boy, you're always the last to know. *grin*

[oni-neko.livejournal.com]

Even if it isn't the one, it's still nice.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

It is. ESVM is absolutely worth looking up. Anyone who can make a classy sonnet out of "Yes, I slept with you to get it out of my system, don't think it means anything" is worthy of respect. :)

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie. :-)