HIS INFLUENCES
As notes of tearless silence played
he cast a net of flattery
and hearing fawning words of love
that echoed from his courtly mouth,
unheeded by past lessons learnt,
she sanctified advances made.
Wrapped within his influences
opposing all iniquity,
his admonitions once expressed
by subjugation now rebuked
and rumours bruited cast aside
with conscious falsehoods entertained.
By impulse of a beating heart
her rising blush betrayed
the pulsing blood of innocence
that flowed to his desires.