some love

some
love can take the sweetness

out of sugar, it will
sour

the cream, make mold
of
whatever bread

was once fresh and warm.

the milk goes
bad in their hands.

all the fruit is bitter
on the tongue.

some love isn't love
at all,

but a lie,
sung over and over
again on
an out of tune piano

with every wire
unstrung.