991: Quality Versus Devotion

I loved someone for her devotion in me,
Need of other qualities never occurred to me,
I brought her up to understand my thoughts,
Together we could solve all intricate knots,
Then one day an angel arrived before me,
With all the qualities, so far never bothered me,
Ignored devotion and loved her for what she is,
She too loved me, not knowing hitherto what love is,

Nurtured her all the way to push her forward,
Time came, she flew away, never looked backward,
Love was important but not over family and career,
I couldn’t continue, as she wanted, crossing my barrier.

Devastated I stood, loosing all I had,
Stopped to wonder, she or me, who went mad,
To her devotion I appealed, shrunk she stood in pain,
Never faltered, nor calculated in loving me again.