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Whence We Came

written by: Viktoria Nikola

@ViktoriaNNK

Come with me, to a place, where the sirs bid farewells

And wear cloaks and top hats, come with me

Where the gentlemen dance and the madams perchance

Wear white gloves, sing, and clap merrily

Where a dragon is seething with his evil upheaving

While a hero lurks deep in the woods

Where a serf very sallow, in his fancy he wallows

For the maiden still rosy in girlhood

Where we’ll waltz through the forests and we’ll listen to lorists

Who reveal what is sooth of the yore

Where the feather quill pen is the cupid’s right-man

And a beautiful bride waits ashore

Sigh Adieu to the now for the stars might allow

Of the candlelight trove in that cave

Where a garland coronal made of Dahlias golden

Might adorn that sweet knight in his grave

Where a kiss, not a kiss, but a sinful remiss

If not taken in whimsical care

Where a heart, not a heart, but a life half apart

If not dueled, defeated, despaired

Come with me, where the marrow might be vanquished in sorrow

Yet the curtseys are never renounced

Where the wine and baguettes are pursued by duets

And where mel’dies are never denounced

Come with me, come with me, let us conquer the day

Let’s untangle the mystr’ys of ere

For perhaps we’ll uncover those poetry lovers

Who’ve been lost to the yester-year

And perhaps in our travel, we might simply unravel

Whence we came, what our future might be

Then we’ll sing and we’ll dance, oh that gentlemens’ stance

Take my hand, and come, come with me