The Attys 2012 Collection (Competitors)

Rhyming Couplet: Love's Nebulous

Rhyming Couplet: Love's Nebulous

Love's notion is painted upon the nebulous clouds; 

A glimmering candle of striking light, which darkness enshrouds. 

The complexity of Love's contradictory colours is meant to be a gift-- 

But tell me Star, who needs Love's labyrinth, when I have your heart to sift? 

At times, love, you have crowned me your timeless Neptune's rings, 

Yet at times, I'm a broken spaceship; shattered by the pain only your terrain brings. 

And our universe is a slow process of coming closer and burning adrift; 

You're the death my yearning heart, but the life of an eternal rift. 

Oh darling dear! For a single star can create a vortex of destructive essence, 

And the fire of compassion within you is burning evanescence...

Your reigning monstrosity; serpentine inside, doesn't stop attracting me to your doomed gravity; 

For I'm the moon and you are my Star of lost innocence--sired hatefully. 

The sickly bond of love between us grows higher...burns ever hotter; 

Till it bursts into a hideously glorious supernova: bitter. 

But somehow my scarred Star, I cannot make up my mind; 

Of which of these two states of yours the more heart-breaking I find: 

The twinge of lost light within you, when the ghost of ghastly realization hits? 

Or the spirit of your sea-green eyes going black; tearing into tear-filled, painful bits? 

Oh sweet Star lost--wish I could explain, how seeing you this way pains! 

For in your place just a horrid black hole remains... 

Since you have died the death of the living, 

And your glowing days have been reduced to a torturous waiting... 

But soon, it arrives; the moment of my dread--your long awaited meth. 

For now, only I can take, what has to be taken--my prized possession: your breath. 

Barren of hope, at last your sweet, rotten eyes look unto me--pleading--me to save you; 

Whilst suspending me towards the state of a comet lost and blue...

A priceless sight for the curious eyes to see: 

That my love is why saving you irrevocably killed me.