By Rhetoric
Date: 2001 Oct 28
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Simple Rejection of Your Offer, in Triplicate

If you are to champion, I am fated to disavow the challenge.
Loves first breath, destined for a torrent of wind and passion;
your cracked and wintered lips merely gasp and sputter half-truths.

Though, I weep at the loss of my youthful shimmer and worship,
I am a far cry from a tossed rag-doll as you would have me deemed.
My conviction will not confirm a living, so said, held mirrored to another.

Am I not the worthy mission, once, long ago, tempting a King's fate?
Should ultimate triumph (slain dragons) come paired with hatred and rue?
My meager beam convinced the mouth to hide the apex of my regret.

Verse could sway a forgotten flower to bloom unashamed,
amongst a field of lavender orchid and salmon crocus flora.
That rhyme to not to be heard with sincere affection for this weed.

I fear my love will never know a winter, heated by the flame of fervor.
This faint dream, risen to obsession, is quelled in shadows of your apathy.
I am thus bound, to abandon feeble attempts and dismiss your campaign.