selfless?

Selfless pretensions lock doors to deepest chambers

love I chose to claim did unite with my faults

love that regained lost charms

love that affirmed integral continuity

love that sought lost honour from this world around

love that stood tests of dance in fiery red coals

it never embraced, never warmed empty enclosures

winter chill was the essence it stood for

yet this love calmed fuelled atrocities

selfish concerns cancelled one by one

all fell down with each passing day

with these selfless pretensions sitting by…