Ending Chapters
When you came into my life, you entered so serenely.
How could I have known that you would exit so obscenely?
In our twenties, back when we were all consumed by lechery,
still, you were the only one who spiced it up with treachery.
Before your sweet elixir turned into bitter pill,
oh my dear, when love was new, what a delicious thrill.
I succumbed to all your kisses, swooned at your good looks.
Such a wild departure from chalk dust and from books.
That is what we all believed those single years were for.
Whatever sweet nights yielded, we always wanted more.
But then rude sanity stepped in to alter all our gladness.
A crazy sort of love might be revealed as simple madness.
So many novice lovers, guided by our lust—
all our romantic love stories have faded into dust.
The prompt words were serenely and treacherous. Here are the links:
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/serenely/
https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Nice one! May I suggest this caption for the photo at the top:
“Meeting of class-action plaintiffs in lawsuit against renowned plastic surgeon.”
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Ha.. hated to reveal real faces. Surprising to me how few I have from that period of my life. To busy to snap photos, I guess.
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Loved your poem! Ah, yes…”guided by our lust”! 💙
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Really enjoyed this. Brought back delicious and not so delicious memories. 💕😏
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Funny, but even with the really bad endings I wouldn’t want to have missed the good times and memories that led up to them.
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Oh, what we didn’t know – made for much more thrilling times.
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