I Regret I Fear

I regret, I fear, that you were ever here
love so intense, I feel too much to my chagrin
not better to be in love and lose
better to have that love at any cost

languishing in desolation
wish I could keep you at arms length
you envelop my heart
supine in my grief I repent at the altar of my emotions

wracked with regret I’ve let this wound fester
repair the chasm, let the lesion coagulate
irrevocably in love , still resolute

at the risk of plagiarising Piaf
no I do not regret
I fear I do not regret