the cautionary tale (a collaboration)

Had life as much rhyme and reason

As words flowing from a poet’s pen

Then love would’ve been as everlasting

As the lovelorn poet’s imagination

 

But truth indeed is stranger than fiction

He loved her without any compulsion

And as shall testify the heavens above

His love was true, selfless, full of passion

 

But the wench, her heart so coarse

Kept denying him, for he was folksy

Fell for the libertine, and his starry ways

Leaving the lad, without care or remorse

 

And to this day, the lad suffers in eternity

And the lassie being tormented by the rake

Weeps in silence, her heart bleeding red

Asking cruel fate to show her some pity

 

-          Sid

The lad was much blind

The lassie as young petals of rose

Her fragrance carved a way in the dark

Her loud beats of wailing heart

Stranded by tempest now seek remorse

 

All phrases of love are silly puppets of fate

Driven by the vicissitudes of cruel time

Can’t always be as pleasant as a midnight’s dream

The vacuity of hell, underfeeds the plate

 

 

Love as everlasting in smile and pain

Conspires in dark to change heartless men

The inevitable truth of life from eternal time

In the lap of whose

The cautionary tale survives

-          Shona

Author's Note

a man heart & a woman heart .. along with their different perspectives towards the same theme! a collaboration by me & siddhartha.

Reviews

[QuiteOllie]

I really like it, for some reason I love the phrase "stranded by tempest now seek remorse."
A very... solid poem.. If that makes sense.. like it isn't too vague and ethereal as some poems are