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A Feign kiss is the Lover's Bane
A FEIGNED KISS IS THE LOVER’S BANE
(A Villanelle)
A feigned kiss is the lover’s bane
A gigolo and gigolet’s ruse
To treat a lover as a quarry is insane
A dying Juliet is not a Romeo’s reign
For he would rather die as an excuse
A feigned kiss is the lover’s bane.
The true lover is the empathic lover’s pain
While unrequited love in the shadows peruse
To treat a lover as a quarry is insane
Rapunzel would rather an old maid be in vain
Than to throw her hair out the window loose
A feigned kiss is the lover’s bane.
Wizards and conjurers to illusionist deign
To offer fool’s love as lover’s gold to use
To treat a lover as a quarry is insane
Only the heart knows true love in the main
While a lying Lothario intends to abuse
A feigned kiss is a lover’s bane
To treat a lover as a quarry is insane.
@ Sai Grafio 2027
