Teddy.15

A Poet’s Death or Encore?

 

 

If it not be love, please let me die

for it is I, and I alone

who can know

my true feelings, deep within my soul

 

my darling, it is but for you, that I breathe

my wrists could be tied with burning rope

I would resist the flames for your heart

I’m already under your charm filled spell

 

I love you

more than the most magnificent sunset

ever to lay down onto this gracious earth

beams of dusk skidding off waves onto land 

from the ocean so very grand

 

but…

If you were indeed to deny my love

then I shall sleep deeply in an everlasting dream

a poetess forever hoping

to change a broken past into love

for you my darling

I would, I would go to the end of the world

 

now to you” my audience”

here upon you

is your opportunity to laugh loudly…

 

as the great mohair grand drapes fall

dramatically to the floor

I get caught up 

falling most ungraciously ass over tit

entangled both my body and pride

underneath this the main curtain   

 

leaving me rather red faced

 

oh, how, how, how

could I possibly take my bow now?

even William Shakespeare himself

                                           would have died in shame  \"again\".