3 Leaf Clover

the night was young and sinister

i saw everything in sepia tones

a world tinted in tweed

but Him, i saw

in heavenly black

i saw, i loved, i conquered

and then He overcame

A beast I was

And only His to tame

O feral love, short-lived and rushed

But I’m the one to blame.

In between the lines, sublime,

All the wonders we could be

I yearned, I loved, I blundered,

For none of it could be.

One night, one night, that Holy night

Black, He so heavenly--

But break, my heart--

For fires start

If you should see him out of dark.

That night was my salvation,

The next were not the same

He only smiled, and had to look away in shame

While, I, the fool, still trembled at his holy name.

A week, a month, went by in vain

And yet he did not even deign

To recognize my pain,

The horrible heart that he had slain!

O heaven, pour your foulest rain!

And then, at last, his gaze did catch

Yet a smile, so vile…

He came to me a while.

I cease to forget this short-lived trial:

“Girl, You know, I loved You not

It was just a moment...just a thought.

But uncherished did you go not

For you were far better than the lot.

Lover once, and only once.

Clover petaled only thrice.

I trusted in my lucky dice

That clovers more

Would come tomorrow,

And your fair petals could I borrow.

Lover once, and only once.

Abandoned out of care, not malice,

For I should not drink from Your pure chalice

Sweet drought it may be, albeit not for me.

Adieu, sweet Girl,

Yours evermore in memory.

Lover once, and only once…”

And then I knew now, not to fall

For the greatest of them all

For shame, for shame, yet splendid game…

We were both the Ones to blame.