Because desire is not to be desired,
Because the past must pass and death must die,
You do not find it difficult to accept
Your own acceptance of the end of love
As natural exhalation of drawn breath:
For me, the end of a companionship
So ‘delicate and valuable’ (your words)
The loss of it seems loss of everything
I have desired, so that I must accept
The past as nothing but the path to death.