Disclaimer: I don't own any version of Tristan and Isolde. This is based more on the movie, however. Tristan's thoughts as he leaves Isolde. Written as a Shakespearean sonnet—ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter, fourteen lines.
.x. Tangled Web .x.
How could I have known, my love, it was you
I was to win? That it was you I would
Lose forever? Under night's cloak are we to
Be the lovers we that now never could
Be. My guilt threatens to swallow me whole
For what I have done to him—my dear friend,
My only family. Cannot control
My desires, you are sure to be my end.
This tangled web of lies and dark deceit,
Causes nightmares that make me toss and turn.
You are beautiful; I am incomplete.
For your touch, my love, I will always yearn,
But I cannot stay. I have to leave, dear,
Yet worry not—I will always be near.