Apr 2018
You used to be a lamp to nightly eyes,
You are a star right now,
You used to be a rose so fine and nice,
Where is that flower-brow?
You have become a woman, proud and pretty,
Just like a crownless queen,
I cannot blame your growth and change and ties,
You never had a vow.
You are a star right now,
You used to be a rose so fine and nice,
Where is that flower-brow?
You have become a woman, proud and pretty,
Just like a crownless queen,
I cannot blame your growth and change and ties,
You never had a vow.
A modified ruba'i. I had seen this form in a divan (collected poems) of an Ottoman poet once. I was inspired by Lana Del Rey and her older self as Lizzy Grant.
