understand each other
men and women never will on earth
convince me you cannot
that romeo and juliet’s enraptured romance
was in any way beautiful
considering romeo fell out
of what he fancied love
at his first glance of juliet
and promptly fell in it again
paying homage at her shrine
they were met, married and buried
within the week
is that sane? is that love?
please don’t quote the balcony scene
at me
i memorized it when i was eight
jane and mr. bingley were too
perfect to be entirely believable
in their tiresome deluge of
sweetness and light and good humour
it is not natural to always agree
oh for a benedick darcy!
a man loyal and good
underneath his obvious
human flaws or pure cussedness
someone with whom one
can trade sarcastic barbs
and mocking jests
yet who can admit his wrongs
when he has them and holds
you to admit yours as well
someone not given to superfluity
of words, rather making each
count as though it were ten
odd pieces of wit could be broken
upon him yet he would be unruffled
the heroes in books are always
a girl’s ideals in some way
is that combination too perfect to wish for?
I found this very entertaining. Your use of the word “cussedness” made me laugh, as I had never heard such a word until this moment. Good poem.
And I quite agree, Romeo was ridiculous.
Yeah I agree with thesleepingtypewriter, Romeo was really ridiculous. I would love if he would have fought. May be we live in a world where to die is considered sane as compared to fight!
Bless You! ~Namaste~