Backwards Pride

Hearts desires pushed aside,

giving all I have left inside.

Self-subdued all for you;

hope for passion renewed.

Left waiting, pouring out.

Binding desire swallowed

fighting the blaze, left hollow.

For love, for you, self-denied.

To myself, maybe I have lied?

Left waiting, pouring out.

Desire bound with love's passion,

now bitterness burns a heart ashen.

Outside, words trying to inspire;

Inside dying, lying on the pyre.

Left empty inside, poured out.