His beauty so radiant, his eyes as deep and blue as the vast ocean.

With half a smile he could steal her breath and turn her firm legs into jelly. These facts he knew too well.

"You mean the world to me." He would say,

"I love you more than my own life." He would add,

LIES! nothing but lies. These facts she knew too well.

He wanted the moon, she owned the moon.

His dark motives as clear as day but the heart convinced the mind and they made it invincible to her.

"Can I have it?" He said with a smile and instantly, the heart's fires ignited, clouding the mind with thick fogs of smoke; within a twinkle of an eye, the moon was his.

The next day, he rode off into the sunset never to be seen again.

Turning to the mind she screamed, "YOU KNEW THESE FACTS TOO WELL, WHY LET THEM HAPPEN?"

And the mind replied, " don't blame this on me, it's all your fault for having a marshmallow for a heart.


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