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  • A poor, common girl. by Wayani
    Added on Aug 12, 2012

    Composed by Seeker Ayla of Konviwedu for her first and truest love, Arkesh Kadius.


    Don't leave me here, alone and empty;
    for I know you could fill your bed aplenty.

    I know that this poor common girl ...
    Is not fancy enough for the refinement of your world.

    Your duties and mine keep us apart -
    And yet I wonder if I still truly stir your heart?

    Am I only the simple common girl,
    who dresses and speaks unlike her parented churls?

    The one you ornament in the richest of silks,
    to have only -your- hands unfurl?

    Do you truly believe you were meant for me?
    A poor common girl who's never worn pearls from the silt sea?

    And even encrusted in such jewels feels completely empty?
    Tell me love, tell me truly please.

    So that my heart might rest with ease,
    within my false bed of pretty tapestries.
    Don't leave me here, alone and empty;
    for I know you could fill your bed aplenty.

    I know that this poor common girl ...
    Is not fancy enough for the refinement of your world.

    Your duties and mine keep us apart -
    And yet I wonder if I still truly stir your heart?

    Am I only the simple common girl,
    who...
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