There were eyes on us,
Mouths against us,
Crowds of false witnesses
Wrongfully accusing us.
Beneath all their lies,
Did our truths blossom,
Upon the edge of doom,
Did we learn to love.
But I never intended,
That your name be sullied,
Or your mother to grieve
To those lies they heave.
So the angry mobs gather,
Together with the royal guards;
But I will face such danger,
For our happily ever after.
All to prove our love,
To prove your innocence;
For our names to be cleansed,
I will endure in your defense.
But you cried and said,
"My love, you need not suffer,
We can escape, and go on,
To our happily ever after."
So we ran into the mountains,
Into the woods and glades;
With nothing but love in our hands,
Hoping that fire won't fade.
The princess once adored,
Was now but a vagabond;
Who thought she was free,
Being cut from her family tree.
They would release their hounds,
Hunting us day and night.
But young love is stubborn,
Never giving up a fight.
In the hold of my arms,
There, you were undone.
In the worries we both buried,
There, we were married.
And as the winter days passed,
That fire we kept aged;
Your smile is now long gone,
Our love's toll, we have paid.
That blazing fire we held,
Kindled by your frail branch
From the family tree,
Weakened to a dying ember.
The halcyon days barely kept
By that ember, were swept
By the shadows in our front door,
Killing its remnants of ardor.
Now it has turned to ash,
The fire died, and it didn't last;
Our hands were scorched in agony,
Left with nothing but traces of ebony.
So we held each other's heart
With dark and ***** palms;
Which blackened our hearts
To beat fast resounding qualms.
Lover, we sleep cold every night,
For we have lost our burning light.
In the darkness, we shiver,
As doubt completely takes over.
In our love forsaken rituals,
Did we offer ourselves like animals,
Banished from our old homes,
Left to die with broken bones.
Lover, we have taken back
All the promises we've said,
Our dreams of happily ever after,
Are now long dead.
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A narrative poem about love and tragedy.