\"Love\"It cleanses with a scathing brillianceNo fault can hideA light that illuminates with itsFeverish regardThe darkness that is everywhereEveryone It does nothing to stem the tideThat crashes with a shivering graspLeaving shadows on all sidesBlind and bound A hostage to The future   

I like the shape of this poem. I enjoyed the words, but my personal preference is not to capitalize the first word of each line. What changing about (in the 2nd stanza) \"That crashes with a shivering grasp\" to \"That crashes from a shivering grasp\" ?What do you mean by Pt 2? Is there a second half or does this just mean there will be a draft 2?

I meant part one as in a series of poems about love.  I have nine so far but some of them are better than others.  Each one explores a different facet of love.  This one is one of my favorites so I decided to share it.    Eventually I envision it as one long poem with several separate parts, right now I\'m just building them.

Hi Space MonkeyThank you for sharing such a beautiful poem- every one writes about love- but not many can communicate or take it to the next step-yours, is an in-depth exploration- the concept of love and what it means!...to be- to feel it- one to one- bring it to fruition-begin to end- an awesome write!...thanks for sharing!...regards Mike 

this is fab.. great last two lines  

This is a good flowing poemmy favourite part is;A light that illuminates with itsFeverish regardThe darkness that is everywhere

\'Leaving shadows on all sides\'

Is a powerful line, one which really makes this the whole poem stand out. It\'s not your typical poem about love, I find this to be much more than that - in fact, if you changed some lines it could be about more than just that.

Great stuff! Keep \'em coming.