The Four Lovers

The Four Lovers

Four boys and four girls,
First chums and then lovers
The youngest, so quiet,
The three others just perfect,
They laughed and they smiled,
Their beauty was great.
The three boys, boisterous
Yet they were good lovers
They each had their girl
With whom they kissed and smiled
The oldest boy, Theomyle,
loved the youngest girl.
And he was thirty, and she fifteen.

One day the boys planned a grand "surprise"
They all got together
(the boys and the girls)
to hang out and be lovers for the day
and all through the day,
The boys all proclaimed,
"Just you wait there will be a surprise"

And at the end of the day
They finally said,
"wait here in this room,
and the surprise will come soon"
So the girls waited:
They chatted and laughed,
giggled and sighed,
waiting for the boys to come back.

At last the porter came up,
and handed them a letter,
saying the boys had left if for them.

The girls huddled around, and read the whole letter,
wondering at the wait.
The letter contained, this surprising news,
that the boys had gone back to their families,
With a few joking words, the boys had declared,
that they had broken up with the girls.
After a silence, the oldest girl laughed and said,
"well, it was a good joke!"
then the second two followed, and laughed and smiled,
for they had not been too serious.

But the youngest went home,
and she cried and she cried,
for the oldest had been to her a husband,
and she was now carrying a child.

Copyright 2019


The story line is from Les Miserables, the actual poem I wrote.