Jeffrey Pine - Erik Ritch
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Juliet and Romeo
-Leah Acosta
There was a man who took his foot and plunged
a spade into the virgin earth. A hole
he dug, and once the darkness was expunged
with promises the void was then made whole:
the seedling planted tenderly, so ripe
with promise, watered then with tears of joy.
Mercurial temper soiled the ground. He wiped
his palms -- such daintiness belied a boy
deserting duty, with his dirtied hands --
feigned innocence can never out those spots.
And so the seedling grew, reject by man,
unkempt, bewildered, in its lonely plot,
and fed by dregs of sorrows rained above.
My only hate sprung from my only love.
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