who can dictate <br />what the heart can love? <br />no one <br /> <br />on that day of <br />sorrow <br />the beautiful princess <br />gives up <br />her royal right <br />to a shepherd <br />that she loved <br /> <br />travels a desert and <br />a forest <br />crosses six rivers <br />sleeps over grass <br />for three nights <br />just t to be with him <br /> <br />and she enters his <br />thatched-roof house <br />surrounded with chickens <br />and goats <br />and asks him to make <br />love with her tonight <br /> <br />she undresses herself <br />her white body <br />scented by fresh roses <br />and precious perfume <br />lighted <br />by the moon <br /> <br />but all that the shepherd did <br />was to look at the stars <br />and then <br />sleep <br /> <br />the night is cold <br />with its eerie silence <br />and the princess <br />kills herself<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heart-has-a-longing-of-its-own-apart-from-the-beautiful/
