Of Juliet and Her Romeo

Romeo and Juliet (1890). Konstantin Makovsky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Two starcrossed lovers go unto their deaths,

fair Juliet and tragic Romeo.

But should the story end with living breaths,

no happy ending: Still a tale of woe.

For Romeo has lived his sixteenth year,

and Juliet has lived a mere thirteen.

All melodrama, yet a lack of fear

to enter into their own marriage scene.

Let’s say they lived, now banished far away,

without their parents, not love nor money.

How long would they delight in every day

aware now life is neither fair nor funny?

Lo! What heart yonder breaks? 'Tis Juliet.

Abandoned with her Romeo’s regret.