infrangible

they longed for the shiny
so dismally distractable
and obdurately fickle
impracticably intractable

my questionable choices
those diffident starts
incongruous partners
with infrangible hearts

yet my heart kept breaking
until it was dust
a jagged old tin can
in rain left to rust

i entreat and cajole
and beg providence
that this time be different
my fears to dispense

attempt and endeavor
to muster up hope
yet wonder if hoping
just makes me a dope

the scene still familiar
though the actors are changed
will this mean the outcome
might be rearranged

or am i a fractal
repeating repeating
to end up repenting
to end up retreating

to begin afresh frightens
for love is capricious
disenchantment pervasive
and ardor suspicious

there is no forecasting
no augury viable
i simply must live it
though life's unreliable