To love, no matter at what cost...

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Open Poetry #29

To love, no matter at what cost...

Master
Senior Member

since 1999-08-18

Posts 1867
Boston, MA

0 posted 2003-11-06 03:49 AM

“She needn’t steal your heart
if you give it to her

the cops and robbers
of your childhood
neglected to teach you
such simplicity”

--Saul Williams
“,Said the Shotgun to the Head”

Ignored by those caught up in their affairs,
his words of love now lower to a hum.
The homeless prophet speaks of change to come
that passersby can’t spare.
O, John the Baptist of the present day,
can’t you foresee your head upon a platter?
The one you love will dance the night away
and flirt with Herod over laid-back, easy chatter…
You say her heart and yours will beat as one?
Before the cock crows, she will prove you wrong.
Your swan is but a duckling though among
the others ducklings she appears a swan.
You praise her grace as thought a poet might,
compare her eyes to stars and polished gems,
and you’re not frightened by the pitch-black night
from which her beauty stems.
O, hopeless lover, you are right, of course!
You can foresee your fate... but you’re content.
No greater is the sacrifice of man
than this: to love, no matter at what cost...

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http://www.unknownpoets.com/db/authors/master

[This message has been edited by Master (11-06-2003 04:16 AM).]

Magicmystery
Senior Member

since 2002-02-13

Posts 821
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

1 posted 2003-11-06 04:28 AM

Now this is a thing of beauty. I love all the allusions you use here.... almost archetypical... losing one's head to a beauty that has... (I am assuming) not given you a single thought or backwards glance.... but just the same you are lost in her perfume, and chasing your own tail as it were. And yet it is better to love ... even if it is unrequited and unreturned..... Well done, Master Poet!!!

Sherry

PS. Come see mine... Follows your theme a bit

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