Ode To The Scarlet Letter ©

By Cici

(For those who remember reading the book The Scarlet Letter at some point in their life, here's an ode in remembrance thereof.) 

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By the end of every rainbow

Though a rainbow hath no end

Flows a melancholy river

Ever twisting but never bent

Only listing sweet sad sorrows

Yea, a woeful heart'd weep

As it creeps on through the valley

To the oceans unknown deep

Lo it echoes of a lonely past

many tears its surface saw

And its troubles just keep mounting

Unchecked by judge or law

Bank to bank it spins a yarn

Some old raconteur should tell

But none laments in tones ere truer

Ringing strong a resounding knell

Yea, this melancholy river

From a melancholy stream

Flows through time and space all weeping

In a melancholy dream