Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Thorny Path by Devi Nina Bingham

And I, not knowing what to do

Considered love and considered you

And without a doubt turned me around

To take a second look and found

We, both faithful and untrue

For so is the thorny path of two.


Yet your embrace does pull me still

Against the current if my strong will

And hold me fast against the tide

As if I were your blushing bride

In charm you are superior

My fallacious poise inferior.


Who leads who, for all are untrue

Even a miserable, nagging shrew

Even the docile husband she feeds

Even the hundred children they breed

Even a priest must confess his sins

Even the mayor of the town you're in.


When it comes to the heart, historically fickle

Its wanderings get us into a pickle

Or stews us into a terrible jam

Led to the slaughter like a mint-jelly lamb

All to blame on the wandering eye

Where senior discount doesn't apply.


But I, seeing my hopeless state

Agreed with destiny's obstinate fate

That Aphrodite brought you back to me

Where I hid among the camouflage sea

And while we aren't entirely wise

Immaturity was our dark demise.


Happy now, I am glad to say

Age has called us back to stay

The thorny path we tread for love

Now fits us like a welcome glove

Cry no more for the rocky climb

Which disappeared in the march of time.











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