The Huguenot
"Love knows not its own depth until the hour
of separation." –Khalil Gibran
The orange moon ascends beyond the leaves
Like a child's balloon—upward it looms
Against nebulous night; upward it heaves
Its ancient amber light until it rooms
Itself in a muted, vacuous sky ...
There, alone below the moon's tender glow,
Helena holds back tears wondering why
Her dear love had to die. Creeds cannot know
The love that lovers undergo, nor feel
Or fathom its sacred birth: when two souls
Touch in a plain beyond this earth in real
And deepest ecstasy. Yet now there rolls
Soft tears from the heart of a broken soul
Whose only love, by a murderous plot,
Was killed on a leisurely moonlit stroll,
Because she was Catholic, and he was not.
About this poem
A coworker of mine asked me to write a tragic love poem: since she is from India, I wrote a tragic love story about a Muslim girl (Haleema) who was in mutual love with a boy of another religion: a Sikh. Religious intolerance violently intervened. "The Huguenot" is a transliterated version of the poem that I wrote for my friend. It is about the love that a Catholic girl had for a French Protestant boy, a Huguenot, who also loved her very deeply. Unfortunately, during the 16th century, the Catholics and the Huguenots were in deep and murderous antipathy with one another, making a relationship between the lovers impossible: hence the poem. more »
Submitted by Vixility on June 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | XA BCBCA DADEFEFGHGH |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 742 |
| Words | 137 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 5, 11 |
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