From when

[Tiger the Lion]

Really enjoying this one, Busker. 
I know it's in MISC but I didn't think you'd mind a few inline observations.

From when I was in love - 
one long lost my tongue twists a little here. a few ways you could go. my gut wants to strike "long" 
murky summer
I remember the pearls,
the bling, the crash, the kindling -
then dwindling this flourish is my favorite part - the inline rhyme, with a third for emphasis. - the whole thing sounds like "bling"
flame of love. O time,
great falsifier, who brings all things to dust,
even black Cleopatra, 
arch eyed in her rage
and Troilus on the walls of Troy -
you bleed words out of me would prefer "from me" to "out of me"
like dirt from clothes,
against a life gathering layers of fat for the winter. stronger without