Love Poem: Requited Love
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Written by: John Beam

Requited Love

Tiptoeing through the garden of love                                                                                                                                            Stalking the wild rose to give her, my treasure                                                                                                                    Oblivious to the thorns wounds of a cooing dove                                                                                                                      Watching you in the window the sun of pleasure                                                                                                             Concealing forbidden love from the rest of the world                                                                                                            In the shadows attending you every need, my queen                                                                                                          My poem the flower of all dreams, my mind is whirled                                                                                           Bound in chains by the fourth wall, nothing is what it seems                                                                                                  Seeing all the requite, in public she must truly love this man                                                                                       Passing me the restraining order, she casts her lovely deadpan