Beggar, beggar
brazen beggar
Bluntly begging
for a buddy
Ain't that silly?
Most ludicrous!
Beggar, beggar
bratty beggar
blatantly blathering
about her blunders
Ain't that shameful?
Most insensate!
Beggar, beggar
bouncy beggar
bragging boldly
about her bounty
Ain't that funny?
Most hilarious!
Beggar, beggar
blithe beggar
boastfully blagging
about her prattle
Ain't that stunning?
Most astounding!
Beggar, beggar
bumbling beggar
bemusedly begging
for heartbreak
Ain't that woeful?
Most ruthful!
Beggar, beggar
my dear beggar
please stop beseeching
the improbable
Why should you implore
the impossible
Just be be brave
and go bimble
far away
from the shambles
But remember:
don't let you heart
beg your mind
for an answer
for my dear beggar
that's unworkable
Enfolded by the white paradise of your loving arms,
I tend to rely to you my dolorous soul’s deepest sensations,
Bemusedly seeking my own vanishing reflection,
In two blue mirrors of fathomless happiness,
Yet underneath my tenebrous shroud the sun arises not,
Without you I drown in a lake of misery and tormenting thoughts,
But when you are near my anguished soul rests in sweet tranquillity,
From wandering the marshes of deep melancholy like a forlorn spectre,
No vine bore so sweet a grape to match your deep enticing kisses,
Neither did a star from Heaven spring to outshine your angelic soul,
And no wormwood ever shall taste as bitter as solitude and absence,
As a solemn star shines brightly over a tempestuous sea or the doleful rain,
Or the sweet blossoms of spring that grow within the ruins,
A candle you are, that illuminates my nightly discomfort,
And though my being may dwell in shades, you are the only dawn.
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