Not your Proud Anger

Not your proud anger me a coward makes,

Nor can your flashing eye or rapier frown

Instil my heart with the cold breath of fear.

Your passion may engulf me, but it shakes

No citadel I claim to call my own ;

It merely serves to make your self more dear.

Tempest of raging words my spirit takes

To set it on a throne, wearing a crown.

A king regaled with songs he loves to hear.

But that which my beleagured barrier breaks

Is the slow tear that wells and brimming o’er

Your trembling lash threads silently your cheek.

Then am I craven, and can do no more

Than fall before your feet, pardon to seek.

 

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