She Spoke In Metaphores

She spoke in a poetic word

Many a rhyme was heard

So many a lovely verse

Just a few pleasantries , at first

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But she was speaking in metaphors!

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We talked of poetic lines

Blank verse, simple rhymes

She talked on many subjects of

And then she spoke of love

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But she was speaking in metaphors!

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I was dumb to her desire

As she tried to set a fire

And trap me in her web

Like a sea swelled, and ebbed.

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But she was speaking in metaphors!

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Ah, my dumb self was taken in

As a trapped animal in a pen

But when she thought I would go

It was my duty to let her know

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I knew she was speaking in metaphors!

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Her joy turned slightly awry

As she found she lost my eye

Tried to recover with a rhyme

But I pulled out my lasting line:

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But she was speaking in metaphors.

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<o:p> Del Cano 2004</o:p>