First name

[Szczepan]

I get the impression that this is about a love spurned and a name best forgotten.
With that presumption ....

FIRST NAME

Cursed is that name which radiates across the room! <<< radiate has a positive connotation somehow / hmmm. maybe permeates?
Queer is it's power to pierce the most soulful grin.
Withdrawing desires intended for the tomb,
Kindling sorrows neglected with the help of gin.

Its delivery, at first, stirred no emotion,
It was merely the label on a dwelling soul.
In time, however, the title traded its role,
And came to be the object of devotion, <<<< switch something somewhere for rhyming pattern? Then again - this is maybe where my naïveté as a newbie comes in. I find breaking pattern schemes useful for adding a "change of direction" in the narrative. Just some misc thoughts to play around with ... maybe?

After it's audition came waves of desire <<< I read after the initial dating period , things got more intense... not sure if reading this as intended
And a desperate longing for an amorous fate.
Unwilling at any moment to retire,
It became the relentless search for a soul mate. <<< hmm. maybe I am?

Hyphenating the name failed to mirror the dream, <<< hyphenating doesn't quite work for me but the rest of the paragraph is more than o.k. by me!
Projecting instead the cold fact, It would seem
That love, like life, is but a game governed by chance,
Leaving at times the lover alone in his dance.

In time the name invoked different feelings.
Far from being a bright hope for what was to come
It became a cold memoir of the past's dealings,
Leaving the once capable body and soul numb