Broken Ring Of His Heart
© Surazeus
2025 12 14

When young boy walking in heather at dawn
sees pretty rose girl dancing in red gown
he desires to taste sweet fruit of her heart
so he embraces her in eager arms,
and though she pricks his chest with a sharp knife
she melts into passionate kiss of hope.

Down in the verdant meadow of his heart,
Johann hurries to the spinning mill wheel
where Rosalyn waits in shadow of hope,
beaming with joy at the sight of his face
as they kiss with song of the flowing stream,
hearts beating with splash of water in light.

Gazing with joy at beauty of her face,
Johann accepts her token of true love
when she slips ring on his finger with trust,
then waits six days by the spinning mill wheel
for her to return with promise of faith,
but wedding bells ring in soft evening glow.

Standing in door of the stone village church,
Johann stares from guileless shock of surprise
to see Rosalyn recite wedding vows
with first-born son of the wealthy town mayor,
so he breaks her ring with stone of his heart
when he wanders alone in forest of night.

While wandering alone in forest of night
Johann sings with angst to moon-glowing clouds,
asking for angels to descend from stars
to soothe the wretched pain wounding his heart,
then pauses at song of wrens in oak trees
that fills his breast with illusion of peace.

Roaming signless roads far across the land,
Johann strums melodious strings of the lute
and sings by sparkling fountains in town squares
about the faithfulness of honest love,
then drinks beer in the crowded inns at night
while clutching the broken ring of his heart.

Though Beauty many conquer humans and gods,
all beautiful people die in the end
in tragic loss that moves not Sygian Zeus
though Venus tries to heal our wounded hearts
for Orcus brings to cave of faceless death
every beautiful soul who ever lives.

Weeping alone by the stone village church
before the tombstone beside the rose bush,
Johann laments sad death of Rosalyn
who never woke after birth of her son,
then buries the broken ring of his heart
for her to wear by the spinning mill wheel.

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Orpheus joins Goethe, Heine, Mueller, and Eichendorff at the mountain inn to drink beer and recite romantic poems about the tragic loss of true love.

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