After the Last Desire

Gone far beyond Love's labyrinthine snare,

I trod through realms where fear itself found none

Where shattered longings bled into the air

And wounded passions faded with the sun.

There, aspirations lay in silent graves

While restless sentiments took wing and fled

I sailed unmoored upon oblivion's waves

With neither hope to crown nor grief to dread.

Amid the hush of fate's unyielding keep

I found a peace no mortal tongue could frame

Where death stood not as terror, dark and deep

But as a lantern bearing Heaven's flame

Thus, freed from longing's venerable chain

I walked the void and found myself again