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To the one I loved - A simple no format stanza poem
Written by: Shieldbearer Solaria, Ward of Fortenrus
Date: Monday, February 23rd, 2004
Addressed to: Everyone
Which do you do?
Do you do what is pure?
Or do you do what is best?
Do you do what is right?
Or do you do what is required?
Do you kill for the sake of killing?
Or do you kill for the sake of honor?
Do you kill for blindness of what's real?
Or do you kill to defend what is important.
Which way is right and which is wrong?
Do you leave your lover for abilities?
Or do you leave them for their beliefs?
Do you still love them if insides don't change?
Or do you hate them for what they are outside?
Is it outside that matters or is it the in?
Would you rather have a person you love
Who charishes you with all their heart?
Or would you rather have someone who is
luke-warm and believes the same as you?
Would that really be love or convenience?
Sit back and think upon what people are.
Someday you'll realize, my love, the truth:
That love comes from all that is within
and only some of what is on the outside.
But by then, you will be too late. Adieu.
Penned by my hand on the 5th of Midsummer, in the year 122 MA.