Love Poem: Loving Pauper
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Written by: Julie Cottingham

Loving Pauper

Onto the parchment of my pain I write

Journal you are my only release

where the story of my ache can be told

Once I held the riches of her heart in my hands

The very substance that placed love upon the throne of my kingdom

Fate had her hand to play

For her rules be dictated by none

Dealt to the many

Her avarice to satisfy

Unto the dungeon of your cold heart I was banished

To be a soul that doth crave her attention

Won't she heed my call?

Hearken unto the sounds of my cry

Mercy, I beg of you

Clinging in desperation of her touch

Worthy only of the paucity of her depth to love

My being laden with the burden of regret and need

Conflicts of my mind

A war of the heart and soul

Hungering for a taste of her lips

My gluttony only to be satisfied with the scraps of love thrown from her table

Once I was her King

I remain ever faithful now

Her loving pauper