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Below is the poem of the day entitled Pledge Of Eternal Love which was written by poet Nicola Byrne.

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Pledge Of Eternal Love

As I beseeched the stars above that night:
  “Pray tell me where this God of yours doth dwell,”
Your beauty evanesced by raging light;
    Most precious love beheld mephitic hell.

With fulminating tears, my heart decreed
    Apologies, that I could not reclaim
The fulgent energy that you would bleed,
    Through nimbleness of an exquisite frame.

Must I endure the slaughter of your life,
    Delivered by the savagery of man;
Or pierce my soul with this serrated knife?
    For breathing without you, I will not plan.

My heart, I swear, that I did merge with thine
Will never love, nor star again will shine.


28th September 2016

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