Free Essay A Ballad

iminsanerunaway · Uploaded by **iminsanerunaway** on Apr 5, 2006

A foolish boy met a foolish girl
And they let their simple love unfurl
He watched her with his eyes soft brown
Her hateful face always wore a frown

She ignored his gifts, his tears, his love
She, an angel, his peaceful dove
He was walking blindly into a doom
But those thoughts were never there to loom

He begged and pleaded for her to stay
On the day she sailed away
On a boat floating through the air
It looked as if she didn't care

But inside her, there was a voice
It spoke of how she had no choice
It spoke that love was there all along
She left to save him, he was wrong

For she was cursed always to defy
And her face had shown a lie
So their love could never be
But this was something, he could not see

He never knew what she'd done for him
And soon his eyes grew cold and dim
He felt nothing but eternal pain
Then sent a bullet through his brain

When she heard of his suicide
She blamed only herself, and cried
Staring blankly into the sky
She took the pills and said goodbye

That is how the story goes
But no one, no one truly knows
that story, a girl coming back too late
it was theirs alone, a tragic fate

tipsy · Joined: 22 May 2006 Comments: 2

this is a clear testimony of how simple language can be used to achieve the intended effect

deadclowneyes · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Comments: 8

No, this is a case of how middle-school poetry is. I suggest you save this and look back on it when you've taken a legitimate writing class.