1. A branch of life’s flowers once bloomed for me
Exuding gentleness, I plucked it for all eternity

2. When alone, it was my sweet basil I inhaled
When lonely, my moon I confided in and regaled

3. When complaining of days that brought sorrow
I solaced my heart though still grief I swallow

4. My heart now flutters around it full of yearning
My soul now fears the evil that’s returning

5. My liver is roasted by hands that deceive
An enemy of fate that knows no reprieve

6. I cannot forget despite time erasing its beauty
Its glance still seeks my eyes that never left its duty

7. Bewildered it seeks what caused it such pain
Yet no solution have I to ease its bane

8. The morn of youth now eve in the shroud of demise
The clutch of death ever tighter as it vies

9. In its parts life still courses leaving no hollow
In its traits beauty melts in death’s morrow

10. Death craves its ruins blind in their keep
Destroying all that avoids its sweep

11. A marvel that astounded all who drew near
Rivalling in beauty whatever came to peer

12. Still dwelt in the spring of my woe
Perpetual grief through my veins flow

13. Until the light of the face that knew no veil did wane
And fires of passion I hid erupted in bane

14. I vowed to never again feel attachment
To one whom the hands of fate make random