errol miller
Evangaline
Two hearts beating
as one in exile, Emmeline
on the baks of Bayou Teche
she takes an oath of freedom
beyond the Eastern Shore to Starship
Gabriel, beloved Gabriel, yo uare hero
betrothed to betray in error, why
do your lips tremble, reunited by chance
as sweet as every Emmeline has come
to touch again, to love, to stay
for she is worthy although destined
to sadly smile and die
and tragically wander amon us
in the plight of her Lost Pricne, she
preserves history for us in her suffering
for all the lsot lovers of Earth
for all who cannot have their chosen one
slumbering she is not asleep, she lives
she strolls the Banks at midnight
seekign comfort, seeking release
from literature's diffused legend
seeking Gabriel, whose fate
changed by age, eludes her as she gazes
across the churchyard into the window
of an everlasting covenant
a pale blue nun, uphoric
in attanedance.
