Chapter 2 - Ah, But a Stare

I looked at her with tender stare,

And I was greeted back with stony glare.

In my hopeful eyes, I searched for more

But she ne'r paid I, nor any man, a tender stare

And so I looked on with tender glare,

And still greeted by stones I cast my fate

As Caesar said "the die is cast," so too was my fate.

For I took a chance, a chance on a stare

But she looked at me with stony glare

And looked away with Pearl eyes

So I ask myself, why even try?

Ah, but a stare, an enslaving tool

That one could wish to be on the opposite side, ridiculed as a fool.

And in my hopeful longing, I found a bitter truth, that she ne'r paid I, nor any man, a tender stare.