Poem on Yerong Li https://698f1378.yerong-li.pages.dev/tags/poem/ Curious about how the world works. Building, writing, learning. Hugo -- gohugo.io en © 2024-2026 · CC BY-NC 4.0 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:38:19 +1000 Love is not fair on its own https://698f1378.yerong-li.pages.dev/posts/2024/08/love-is-not-fair-on-its-own/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:38:19 +1000 https://698f1378.yerong-li.pages.dev/posts/2024/08/love-is-not-fair-on-its-own/ A spare English poem about uneven desire, cooling fire, and the asymmetry inside love. Love is not fair on its own

Like the dark side of the Moon

The scale tilts to the side

Where hearts with heavy desire reside

Countless plays abide by one rule

One soul on fire —

Till it cools

A burning gaze —

Rests upon a nameless bloom

Scorched —

Descending into the tomb

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