Coldness Doctrine

you shut me out again, quick sudden. without any regard or repercussions, exceeding the limits of anything nearing this, blunt force compassion ... and me here I am, stunned and reeling like the schlemiel seen dancing in the shadows, full of hope and despair your coldness cuts hard straining the sweetness of yesterday's dreams and ideologies, pulling the belief past those great night treacheries I thought we'd laid to rest, bereft and demoted to whatever it was we once had...