A love poem

Sense lost in shadow-play
Dragging my feet by the bay
I yearn for a tide
To grope me inside
Drenched in my incapacities
Feeding on shreds of sanity
I long to fathom the oceans
Of innumerable carnal notions

I read a thousand love poems
Across centuries
Beyond boundaries
Of lovers longing for love
Calmly waiting for love
Of lovers budding in swarms
Merrily dying in arms
Of lovers after the act
Fiercely crushing the pact
Of lovers in destitute
Sometimes soaked in gratitude
Of lovers mesmerized
Alive but paralysed

Each story is personal
All characters special
I fail to find my love
In this lyrical universe
Eventually I compose
A couplet of remorse
A ballad of old words
The search continues
Of a parallel cosmos
The night is long
And the days few
But I promise you
A love poem in lieu..