A clown's smiles dressed in frowns <br />A lover's bait in a tattered gown <br /> <br />The sky above turns everything brown <br />Even a clown turns love's love down <br /> <br />Rides a trembling gaze to get around <br />Leaves bitter whispers in crazy towns <br /> <br />Behind she whimpers without a sound <br />Adorned beneath they wear a crown <br /> <br />She cries for all the jagged hearts they've found <br />He smiles at each one that astounds <br /> <br />And they both agree <br />that though they're bound <br />There is nothing else but knowing the bandages of a lover's kiss<br /><br />Hubert J. Humperdink<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-old-flame-2/
