Sweet and Tender

That such sweet and tender sadness
can come of breathing life, exhaling joy,
make the memories I've so cherished
that much harder to enjoy

Sweet and tender wanting
wrought of raw intensity and need
so sharpened all those promises
and caused my soul to bleed

That those memories once pure
are now painful to behold,
have no sway upon this wanting
as tender feelings still unfold.

Such sweet and tender sadness
wasted upon that cad
If it had been my money
'twould not have been so bad