How Did We Get Here Poem by Mpho Leteng

We get gulped in depths of impassioned passions,
Emotional emotions, a tempest raging, a force too strong,
Love is no longer the endearment of Shakespear's pen,
The true love that concurs all is only a poet's mirage,
Today's love is crammed with pain and rage!
Today's ljve is just words on a page,
The passion that once warmed the soul
Is now a blaze that consumes it whole,
Love feels evanescent and brief,
It's no longer the stream that sublimely flows,
It's now like a tide that comes and goes,
Sometimes goes and never comes,
But how did we get here?
How did we get to this precipice of pain?
Where vows of foerver are talked in vain,
And the sanctity of love turns to stain
the heart that once held it.