Romeo & Juliet

I loved you from the first I saw your eyes –

I knew the plans my parents made were wrong.

‘Twas you my heart would long for – our demise

Was set in stone by feuds fought way too long.

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We ran away in secret to be wed –

Our life of married bliss begun with gore.

Our final chance was this, the friar said

But even that was not to end the war.

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Sublime - the song you sang to me in rhyme,

Your rhythm set the beating of my heart.

Our love had reached its pinnacle, its prime

Forever now immortalized in art.

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“For never was a story of more woe –

Than this of Juliet and Romeo.” {Romeo and Juliet, V.iii.308-9}