My heart has been taken

by none other than the Prince

of Loneliness

I want to touch his hand and

not feel the Coldness of his

Frozen Anguish

To breathe his air,

to laugh at his nonsense,

to bear with him through

His Madness

Father says to pay him no notice

but I know my soul

and I will float on Heaven's clouds

and soar with Hermes's winged feet

to reach my desired goal

To plant a seed of affection in his

Dry body

and make him understand

I am somebody

not just this vulnerable girl child

not blind as a velveteen bat

not gullible like the mice in a cage

beckoning and teased with food

This cage, gilded,

make me feel like a waste

but you

You make me feel like a beautiful sage

when I flip through these gold pages

I cry knowing

I cannot have you and that

you do not want me

Nevermore

cry I, under my lonely sycamore

by the hollowed creek,

will I let myself foolishly love

Anyone

who will never love me as passionately

as the sky is blue

and the wheat golden in their immortal bloom

Who will never hold me and whisper in my

Poisoned ear, my ear swollen with Lies

that I am their golden Venus or their lost nymph

To my demise,

No matter how hard I tried to

Touch you

And swim in your everything

I realize now that you were

Something close to-

Nothing

And I was a child blinded by anything

God knowst I could never dare to speak

your name

because even if I wanted to,

you had sewn my mouth shut with your

Thread of Shame

So now I stand here by this lone wonder

thinking of your thunderous words

and my sodden blunders

Tears flow freely as I catch

a lite sneeze

Wait! maybe my love will return to me

and accept me

I will cry and I will plead

God knows how hard I've tried

I turn to face your shadow behind me

believing

feeling

that I will begin anew

Anew

a journey of you and me

Until I feel the cold darkness sweep

over me

my head smashed by the branch

of my friend the Tree

Let the darkness flow into my head

my breath ready to leave me

one…

two…

three….

Will my Prince think of me

until his brain is sore

Oh…..I forget…

he doesn't love me anymore…