Romeo and Juliet, Those Innocents

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The big mistake they make was not in love.

The massive error was in thinking they

Should rush to marriage in unthinking shove.

This pair forged in an instant love were prey

To attitudes society had forced

Upon them, brainwashed thoughtlessness about

One rite.  Their iridescent hormones coursed

Through teenage organs.  Harsh, demented shout

Is what they should have followed.  These two should

Have leapt to love itself and not to vows

Before a priest.  A broken maidenhood

Is what they needed, not a snoring drowse.

  They could have filled her full of slick desire.

    They chose a wedlocked service lacking choir.

© Phillip Whidden