The Shepherd's Reply To The Nymph Poem by Steven Rodriguez

You deny a colt for your empty pung
My worlds love is naught but young
Where all exists in twenty four karat
Should not be given to thee who does least merit

To compare my heart to whither, be an outrage
For divine love will only but grow with age
What reason does one carry, not believe for love to last
Do not base treason off of scary and dreadful pasts.

Flowers do fade, while no one's will grow
With strong roots not made for soil where all is woe
Why grasp my love and turn it upend
Why question a summer that sees no end

Judge a hammer by the rust of the impaled nail
Will bring you misery will all life's fail
Grasp my fading heart in full avail
How could you recall what you forgot in full detail

Like a home with an embellished nursery
I present myself with the finest luxuries
Not to set forth and kidnap thy heart
But to show thee comfort from the start


Youth will last, and love is what breeds
Unlimited joys are never guaranteed
Pity is to fear rain in the midst of a flood
Do not live, but stay with me and be thine loved