A friend of mine was recently dumped by her fiance. This has affected her greatly. I wanted to cheer her up in some way, but you know how it is. When someone has really been hurt to the core, there aren’t many words you can offer. So, I thought I would write a poem, my first villanelle, to the cheating bastard who dumped her instead.
Your Loss
For Alexandra
How could you turn your heart from love so grand?
A love as hers you will not know again;
Your loss is greater than you understand.
Her burning love for you would all withstand;
Never a love so pure will you attain;
How could you turn your heart from love so grand?
Unto the end would she have kept your hand,
And never with another ever lain;
Your loss is greater than you understand.
She would not in her days her love remand;
A truer love in life you will not gain;
How could you turn your heart from love so grand?
No deeper love than hers is in the land;
Perdurable, through time would it remain;
Your loss is greater than you understand.
You’ve left her with a broken heart to stand
In emptiness alone with all her pain;
How could you turn your heart from love so grand?
Your loss is greater than you understand.
