Dean Of A Clean Heart Poem by John Sensele

Months spent ruminating in solitude to ponder
The extent of the humiliation the lass inflicted
On Jack when she sailed away and failed to go yonder
The courtship ship stung to the quick the love that once existed.

Was it despicable and pitiable to resist the urge
To pluck the luck of the forbidden fruit early?
Enraged, Jack's heart couldn't purge
The wrath that in batik wrap of his bosom loomed burly.

Ebony gondolas filled with dark thoughts too melancholy
To contemplate descended on his plate
Where the spectre of destruction swept vestiges of a jolly
Mood that had brightened up his life of late.

Jack's pride couldn't take the ride no more
When like heaven-sent along came Christine
Not only to rescue from every pore
In his life sinews sanity; but of her heart she appointed him the dean.