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| Daniel A. Stafford | 7/4/2000 3:30:20 AM 9/23/2020 11:36:28 PM | 770 |
Ace of Hearts
Young, too young, to really understand....still the Ace of Hearts admired.
Teen aged lust rages in veins still flush and opened, softness desired.
Hands longing to gently touch, but none there to feel their reward.
Squeezing the last drops out of fantasy, the Ace of Hearts.
Apprentice to the Sorcerers' College.
Lovingly on fire, burned at the stake, learning of pain to partake.
Ice-blue eyes that know just how to burn your heart with a fake,
Love declarations withering on the vine, there still is a long time,
Before the Ace of Hearts shall be freed of the price of rhyme.
Learning of lonliness spells in time to myriad rock tunes.
Betrayed, remembering a heartache so deep you long to be the Ace of Hearts.
Defying fate's call to make warmth a part of life, blacking out new starts.
Watching your heart beating out it's last warmth in the palm of an unloving lying hand,
Player of games that slept at your side, with a truth no blouse nor magic sweater could stand.
Sometimes your heart lies to you. It knows no better.
Tears grown into an ice-strewn river, nineteen years no armor,
Shall guard you into forever, from the pains of amour,
But the card in the frozen blue ice cube, the crystal ball of pain,
It's the Ace of Hearts that is locked in the frozen painful rain.
A moment in time trapped, heart strapped away.
Emotions drowned so deep, no longer able to weep.
Ace of Hearts, you have now become, but the price is to steep.
Do you ever thaw, ever see the sun again?
Ace of Hearts, forever in mourning?
Don't wear black in the ice cube too long,
That crystal ball of pain glorified in song,
Is no way to live a lifetime,
Cold well past your prime.
Have your dreams died away?
Ace of Hearts, you think you know all the rules.
But in reality, it's the rules for fools.
Learn love. Hard, cold, soft, warm, blinding.
But at least it's a wealth of feeling.
AquarianM
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 07/04/2000
Author's Comments
Early lessons, early sorrows, old memories. I have since forgiven. But I do remember. I doubt I could possibly forget.
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