DISCLAIMER: The play 'Romeo and Juliet' will forever belong to William Shakespeare. I only hope he will forgive me for what I have done with his great work.
Romeo and Juliet
The Capulets and Montagues had a fight
Though they clearly had no right
Many people died that day
The Prince would surely make them pay
He declared with all his might
That if their feud caused another fight
In Verona streets on any day
Their lives are what they'd have to pay
See, the families had an ancient war
So old they'd forgotten what the fighting was for
Each family had an only child
Neither was really all that wild
The Montague's had Romeo
16, and gets along with Benvolio
The Capulet's had Juliet
14, wanted as a wife to Paris, whom she'd never met
Romeo and Juliet met
At the Ball of Lord Capulet
Their love awoken
Not a word to be spoken
Lord Montague and kin
Weren't supposed to be let in
Romeo was seen
Capulet didn't want to make a scene
At the end of the ball they learned
What should really and truly be mourned
That each was the other's enemy
They really should be in a state of enmity
Because of the two families feud
Their love could never be viewed
They had to meet in secret,
But their love they could not forget
Romeo had to sneak
So that they could speak
From Juliet's balcony
Which set the course of destiny
The Friar agreed to marry,
As long as they did not tarry
He wanted to end the families' feud
Though his means were rather rude
Now Tybalt was still rather mad
A worse notion he never had
Wanting to fight a duel with Romeo
He ends up killing Mercutio
Mercutio fights in Romeo's place
Romeo tried to stop it with all due haste,
Tybalt sweeps in with an underhand stab
Mercutio can no longer speak of Queen Mab
Tybalt gets scared and runs away
Which signals the end of this fray
Romeo quickly goes chasing after
Tybalt cannot run the faster
Romeo catches Tybalt quite soon
It is not yet far past noon
Romeo's heart is full of gloom
This is the day of Tybalt's doom
Benvolio told the Prince the course of events
For his offense the Prince did immediately exile him hence
The sentence was really rather quite kind
Death being the one everyone else had in mind
Romeo hides in Friar Lawrence's cell
He really doesn't look nearly well
Meanwhile Juliet weeps for Romeo banished
As if he had just simply vanished
Juliet's parents
Were going to force her to marry Paris
Mantua was where Romeo was forced to go
Unaware of Juliet's woe
The Friar had a notion
Juliet to take a sleeping potion
Romeo was sent a note
But somehow it missed the boat
To fake her death was the key
So happy she could be,
After they placed her in the tomb
There did difficulties loom
Romeo finally arrives
Thinking that Juliet really dies,
Romeo is in despair
Buys a poison drug to join her there
Paris thinks Romeo's means are untrue
Romeo gives him his course due
Bringing the blade fast and true
Romeo bids his love adieu
Romeo's drug brings death fast
When Juliet awakes she is aghast
She takes his dagger to her breast
And plunges it into her chest
The Friar confesses all to the Prince
Expecting his death will commence
The Royal Pardon the Prince he does give
And the family's feud, it ceases to live
Statues of gold they said they would raise
In honor of all the happier days
In memory of the children they loved
That their fighting meant the death of
So I tell you this tale of gloom
Of two young lovers lost much too soon
It is a classic tale of woe
This of Juliet and Romeo