Friendship Cooled

How dare you? In a fit
Of youthful indiscretion
You muddied my hero
And now he cannot be mended.
Voice fresh as mountain cataract
And hands quietly moving as wolf-song
Are shattered with drunken shouts.
A small flame of heartlight
Snuffed to go slinking among
Shadowy regrets and base desires,
A hope lost to vagrant despair
I leave for farewell at your door.