Heart in shadows
28 May 2011
Hearts that lurk in murky shadows
Hearts that beat to count of many
Will work love and to the gallows
Pick thine, mine of heart just any
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A million, a ten, a penny
Count again for thoughts you will haunt
Rose, Anne, Faith, Shirley or Jenny
A tear and a twist and a taunt
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For love is but banner to flaunt
For those who seek many a fount
Of loss their faces grow not gaunt
All hilltops of love knaves would mount
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Of baffling worlds some do recount
Shirking stallion meets frightened mare
Time to flag the hasty would count
To wait on the loved is to care
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A bosom that loves comes so bare
Bearing wisdom knight’s heart once knew
Love is not but closure to share
A heart with a face peeping through
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The bosom that beats only true
Heeds not acid tongues that complain
Takes of blue then a darker hue
Of treachery one is but slain
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For love is but vessel of pain
That holds ne’er slightest morsel of joy
For those who remain Oh so vain
In lieu of heart present decoy