quick to fall

it is
  familiar

falling victim
     to the inadvertant
              wistfulness

to completely disgard
          any remnant
       of reasoning
   and embrace

        the
   absolute belief

that a single change
     in situation
        could cause
     the rest to
    slip away

that
  one
  single
  development
        could resolve
          any emptiness

despite
  having
     learned
     otherwise
          the thought
       always recurs

a notion
  that always
     seeks
      to replace
       rationality

an illusion
          that
         can somehow seem
      more real
         than the obvious
            reality

though such  longings
  will never be       relieved
    by those external cirumstance

but only
    from within