Love Undoes Its Heritage Quite Slowly

Music: Fugue in C# Minor. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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Love undoes its heritage quite slowly, Spinning like a planet through its dust. Sometimes it feels like hatred, sometimes mourning, Sometimes pain long paralyzed by rust. Sometimes shame of past humiliation Wrings the heart with hands inured to toil, And once again some drops of unspent fury Spill upon the dry and barren soil. Ay, me! When will it end? The seasoned sorrow Of unforgiven trespasses of old? No matter new love blossoming! There's somewhere A place within untenanted and cold.