For My Friend

~Of that the heart a fire burns

for she who falls in love~

~Be that so great in of her yearn

her thought be not thereof~

~Her love for he be not returned

nor does he even care~

~So does she love so is she spurned

her heart be stripped to bare~

~He she loved her heart he broke

the man be worthy not~

~In that of sorrow be gone her hope

for that the man she sought~

~Be that she guard her heart of lust

from love that cannot be~

~Control the flame sometimes unjust

be not her destiny~

~Be that of now so full of tears

for that the man she yearned~

~In of her heart be smolder sears

where once the fire burned~

~Take heed in that be careful of

the fire in your lust~

~Sometimes the flame of burning love

be bound in that combust~

~One day her love shall come to pass

be that of heart in true~

~Her love will burn in everlast

in that be of anew~

~Be she I speak be of my friend

within my heart she be~

~I pray for her that in the end

her heart again will glee~

Duke Sherman