A Child King

9: 37 p.m.

love
chooses to
settle in the heart
of a lover
like a score.
arms dropped
the mind “uncorrupt”
and a lover is loved again
but love is why we suffer
for love begets a lover
to love one
and love another
a crime is born
when love sleeps with murder
three bodies
two lovers
one death.

leonell echa