Would You Like to Name Some Stars?

by Flaming-June

In my AP Composition class, our teacher assigned us a sonate. I chose the standard Elizabethan abab, with John and Aeryn's love as the subject, tho' their names are never mentioned in the poem. Just something I happened to have found while rummaging thr

Would you like to name some stars?

His question spoke rhetorically

tamed gaze upon the skies,

to answer, she would grudgingly

become his trus'd guide.

And side-by-side they'd evermore

be fabl'd lovers, two,

and for all of time will they adore

each other, through and through.

But all was lost when one day hence

the marauders did arise,

and captur'd beauty's greatest sense

disabling her pride.

But constant was their love to be,

and it shall live eternally.