Loveless Mechanism

This one was another entry for a contest on GaiaOnline.com. The contest was for free form poetry which I don't often do. So I didn't win this one. They only had a first place though so I don't know if I would have come in second or third either.

Amber colored sunsets seem to me
To have lost their shimmer and shine
Brillaint azure skies have dimmed now
And all I see is faded by a tainted lens

Within a heart of gears and steel
Pumps only blood of grease and oil
I have tossed aside rose-colored glasses
For a lens smeared with such things

The life I once lived is blurred by time
And I can never return
It has grown stale with misuse now
This unstable love of mine