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Love Is A Madness

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Love is a madness, love is a fevered dream,         A white soul lost in a field of scarlet flowers,         Love is a search for the lost, the ever vanishing gleam         Of wings, desires and sorrows and haunted hours.         Will the look return to your eyes, the warmth to your hand?         Love is a doubt, an ache, love is a writhing fear.         Love is a potion drunk when the ship puts out from land,         Rudderless, sails at full, and with none to steer.         The end is a shattered lamp, a drunken seraph asleep,         The upturned face of the drowned on a barren beach.         The glare of noon is o'er us, we are ashamed to weep,         The beginning and end of love are devoid of speech.

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