My new-found friend

This is a romance poem about a girl who experiences love for the first time

A New-found friend

A man whose shoulders, set

with laborious experience

whose eyes so brimming

with all loves evidence

hates name is dead

and how, what may I despise?

of what burning fury may I complain

when I am drowning in his eyes

he lays me, dry as thirst 

upon a bed of thick course sand

and what a strange relation it seems to be

not brother, not father, not son, nor friend

a controversial love's fool

entrapped in a heart of contradiction

and could I, my own picture's painter,

fall victim to such confliction?

perhaps such confusion

not followed by grief,

with his heart so pursued,

may instead bring relief 

-gracious