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I still wanted to keep with the theme of romance with this week’s article since we’re still in the midst of the Valentine season.
However, love is not all hearts and bliss. Love is hard, and sometimes, it can be tragic. In fact, tragic love often makes great fodder for the best poems.
So, in keeping with the theme of Valentine’s Day, as well as the hard reality that sometimes overshadows love, I present these darker poems, but I hope you will not shy away from their truth and beauty.
One More Life to Live
Wake
Gloom has come to blanket
The cheerless angels of stone
That stand as sentries
In this wasteland of bones.
See
A garland of black roses
Rests on your grave.
This is where I kneel
And whisper your name.
Despair
If I but had one more life to live
I would bury this Requiem of love
To cleanse and purge
The memory of blood.
Sarah Fair
Sarah Fair, Sarah Fair
Where can you be?
Are you in the green grove
Where we kissed
At the age of fifteen?
When the blue of your eye
Entranced my heart
When my fingers
Toyed with your hair
Locks long and dark.
Sarah Fair, Sarah Fair
Where can you be?
Are you at the church
Where we wed
At the age of twenty-three?
While the spring air
Whispered promises of bliss
Where we sealed our vows
With a gentle kiss.
Sarah Fair, Sarah Fair
Where have you gone?
It’s been fifty years
Since I’ve heard your song.
You died near the church
Your fairness untouched.
Your heart was so weak
The wedding bells hushed.
Sarah Fair, Sarah Fair
Where have you gone?
Are you in Heaven
Where all angels belong?
By your grave I rest my head
And hope for sweeter dreams
Where you and I are together
Under the stars that beam.
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