For Verletta

O my heart, my heart is there tonight Where hibiscus at the fence side flower the light Of stars in Verletta's eyes, O I'd write Her poems if she knew how to read what delight Queens that stood before a window pane Where a lonely Knight scribbled sorrow to his gain But I too polite, set my suite before vain Any hope now she remembers my name. O fain! Do you now recall the red dirt school yard The mocking children around fear, and the boy hard Put to ignore you there? Day's light discard The evening in shards of shadows, but my regard For you in time's journey follows your flight From the village gate to judges bench, where you fight The ridicules that wrenched us, and the spite Self-centered in the ego of children of a moral plight. O Verletta, I think of you tonight, for you rose Out of the dingy Mountainside, better justice to expose While the wrong upon my heart no one knows This love I bore you, this longing for you undisclosed To gallants that did a coat romantically spread Before a queen wh dungeoned them and desired their head I unlike them would yield all El Dorados to wed Your dreams to mine, and share the solace of your bed.