Promptly 4 and 5

OK, Passion

OK, Passion

Passion is a heady draught,
sometimes it makes us daft;
at others lifts unto the heights,
with other worlds in sight

When bound by passion’s mighty grip,
how easily we slip
from grace into such sad folly,
that sends us off our trolley.

It’s for the young, that is the thing,
they stand the pain it brings;
and now that we have grown so old,
with luck, it leaves us cold.


Line count: 12
Rhymed couplets
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 21 2023
Prompt: Passion.
Note: I found this prompt probably the hardest ever encountered in Promptly, which is the reason for my taking five days to ponder on it. The problem was that I was trying to say something serious about the subject and there is just too much to say in that case. In the end I have been reduced to being flippant. My apologies.