Romance is the merchant of death
love brings hate within every breath
Infatuation rears men blind
a pair of star-cross’d lovers, take their life. (1)
If music be the food of love, play on (2)
muliebral verses from a call girl’s song
the heart is empty, with love it shall be filled
mine forever empty, through woman’s cold will
Romance is a call that we fail to heed
How can love be the cure, when it is the disease?
What men daily do, not knowing what they do (3)
again under the spell from a womans cunning rouse
Alas my heart not empty, temptation, allure
not again i beg, for love again to much to endure
under the spell, again at first sight
women and love a forever haunting vice
Interesting side note:
So last year while working on valentines day at a restaurant with the a good friend i wrote a poem on the work computer, it came out in a receipt form and i put next to where all the orders come up. It contained a whole lot of the word “fuck” in it too, i was kinda angry at the time (for reasons unknown to me) that being said the new girl (Italian, uni student, 18, my height, dark hair, played violin or similar instrument) thought i was some depressed, lonely, crazy (I glad-wrapped my friend’s hands to a knife once when she was there) dude.
Also note: i am not a Crazy, depressed, lonely dude.
I also know that this is a week early, but i have nothing better to do as yesterday i spent with an amazingly cute couple in a bar filled with attractive people after i watched that Kate Hudson film “raising Helen”
nb: 3 quotes from Shakespeare, in relevance to poem.The rest is my insane ramblings.
(1)The phrase was coined in the prologue of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet:
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross’d lovers, take their life.
(2) Twelfth Night Act 1, scene 1, 1–3
Duke Orsino:
If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
(3) Much Ado About Nothing (IV, i, 19-21)
Claudio:
“O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily
do, not knowing what they do!”
