Fables, and children's stories, parables and myths
Over the millennia, have purveyed romanticized scripts
Fireworks and butterflies,
Heartsick, poetic rhapsody,
If love alters not the very arc of our lives
Then it must not be true love's destiny

But love, in its simplest and quietest course
Can outshine the grandest tales,
Its sword and shield, steadfast and unwary
In real life, ordinary love prevails

Time and again, in myth and legend,
arrows fly with hearts...