The Story that Her Young Face Told.

The Story that Her young face Told.


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The Story that her Young Face Told,

was brief, but several centuries Old;

A Song of Love all  Cynics hate

to hear,..which brings Damnation or

Salvation! (depending mostly on the ear.)



I saw, and listened from the odd perspective

of an Objective viewer torn; struggling between

admiration, and a sense of irony that such

Beauty was ever born.

(only to be despised by 3 parts of the World,

and by the other quarter Scorned.)



Yet never did my Bold Heart falter,

or use Loves excuse like a Desperate

crutch; as She stood upon that Soapbox

Alter! (with Sad Flowers dying at her

touch.)



So will I be content when I grow Old?

knowing the Ancient Story her Young face

told?..Or Die Aghast?!...in want of a better

hand to Hold! (than that of a Ghosts beyond

My Grasp.)



J.Stephen.H.