A Love Between a 21st Century Reader and a 19th Century Poet
A Fiction Poem
a love broad and wide like the sky. Timid in the light.
She was fed up with the sorceress that had cursed
the words out of her lover, and that night
Hecate sought to define unrequited love to her through dream:
She was a desolate bird that flew all alone and
its wings dusted the silvery utensils that her lover previously ate from,
and she forgot how to breathe when she realized
that she would never see his lips sip so slow and late from the cup she tasted from ever so sweet.
yet - she fell in love with his words
and she didn’t care that they lived two centuries apart.
Alas she knew she’d never see him but only in her dreams
and her dreams started to fade as each poem did.
they became facades of lust begging to belong in the thrust
of the streams
and loving she never did
but only with this man and this unrequited long-lasting love did she want to exist with.
she fell in love with his voice and the words that he spoke
and the lust he expressed
and the poems he wrote,
in which he became famous for,
and he addressed his best
words that would never disappear as long as they were on paper.
John Keats was an expert puppeteer
that played with people’s feelings and quoted Shakespeare.
He voiced such nostalgia and love for the girl he never met
that this girl now reads his poems so far from when they were written, yet -
she begs to forget the moments they could have shared,
dreaming that if only they had lived in order
and lived long enough:
the long-lost love they dreamed of would have been completed and solemnly declared.
About the Creator
Melina Giorgalletou
Just a college student from Cyprus, living in NYC, trying to find herself through words and writing.
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