The poet’s curse
\nby cricketjeff on September 14, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n
A lonely man sits writing in a book
\nThe waitress smiles and brings another tea
\nHe doesn’t pause or raise his eyes to look
\nBut paints her pretty face in poetry<\/p>\n
Tomorrow sees the man back on his seat
\nUnwashed, unkempt and not a civil word
\nHe pays for tea that’s strong and over sweet
\nReciting lines that nobody has heard<\/p>\n
And day by day he writes her on a page
\nHer life becomes a story told in verse
\nHis calloused hands transfer his hidden rage
\nHer laughing voice becomes his fatal curse<\/p>\n
The summer ends the cafe’s doors are closed
\nThe book is filled and she is far away
\nHe reads the words he’s carefully composed
\nOne final time one frozen winter’s day<\/p>\n
So far away she feels the burning pain
\nAnd quickly calls the doctors to her side
\nHer flesh turns black her spirits seem to drain
\nIn half a day she’s withered up and died<\/p>\n
He huddled in his shack against the storm
\nAnd burned the book to keep his body warm<\/p>\n
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