Happy Dagger

A poem for Shakespeare's Juliet

Happy Dagger

 

Happy dagger Juliet cried

Her life poisoned     away

when her love Romeo died

She could not bare to stay

 

Rivers flowed from her eyes

Drying up her inner spring

God did not hear her cries

Her prayers meant nothing

 

An explosion of pulsing pain

A throb in her aching breast

Love left but an awful stain

He could she ever         rest

 

The hand clutched it too tight

her hurt heart seeking release

Begged for the final fatal fight

Do It   End it All  End it please

 

Juliet plunged it down deep

The sharp silver shinning blade

Unlocked life’s killer   keep

And let her lovely light     fade

 

Her last breath barely drawn

The enemy now defeated

the blood has gushed and gone

unclenched the quest

         is completed