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Lee Hirst
Mary -BrytEyz- Ball
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Love's Folly
by Lyle Berry (Age: 61)
copyright 05-24-2001


Age Rating: 18 to 127

 
I wanted their love so I sought it;
Willingly tried any ploy.
The love bug, sweet fever – I caught it;
I sacrificed all for its joy.

Whatever they’d covet – I bought it;
I focused on their happiness.
A lesson hard learned, but they taught it;
Though it came too damned late for redress.

I knew that it took more than money;
Yet I ached for a woman to hold.
Endeavored to buy love – how funny!
In the end I was left in the cold.

Three marriages founded on worship;
Of some unachievable goal.
I mucked through fresh rituals of courtship,
To purge each past guilt from my soul.

Though empty, I never stopped vying,
For some magic to fill that black hole.
Relentlessly, futilely trying,
Like some scrabbling, blind, star-nosed mole.

Thirty years disappeared with a vengeance;
Consumed with the remnants of pride.
Lust and self-pity now penchants;
Increasingly bitter inside.

I chanted at vespers in anguish;
I ranted at God and screamed “Why?”
In truth, in dark sloth had I languished?
“Was in all just in vain?” was my cry.

The folk tale has finally ended;
The cowboy did not get the girl.
Their love was all folly – pretended;
Guess it’s time to make peace with the World.

Copyright 5/2001
Lyle R. Berry


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07-09-2004 Mary -BrytEyz- Ball    

You master your words well. They flow, they sing to the reader, and lead them in a verbal waltz. Thank you for this dance, may I have another? :-)
04-01-2001 Lyle Berry    

Thanks Billy. Glad you could relate!




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