The Folly- Poe Baker

The Folly

Once I chased a falling star,

Once and only once, I vowed

To plead perchance, I dimmed it’s spark,

To it that shone so bright and proud.

Blindly and with burning gaze

I sought my heart and turned blind eye.

And looked upon that blinding face,

My penitence wrought me to die.

When the embers of a distant sky

Lit spark to my most sweetest woe,

I sighed to think it weren’t for naught

Were I to die my death and go.