By Bella Balisi-Bevilacqua
[Title has been stolen from a conversation with Stephanie Venegas – a classmate, a friend, and a partner in crime forged into one.]
They met in firelight, cloaked by decree,
Two hearts forbidden by pedigree.
Juliet’s father forged walls, Romeo’s wielded blades,
Yet love bloomed bright where daylight fades.
She spoke like thunder in velvet disguise,
A storm that trembled behind calm eyes.
He smiled with ruin tucked in her chest—
A soldier of fate who loved her best.
They danced in catacombs under the law,
Stealing seconds, breaking flaw.
Her laugh was rebellion in a gilded room,
Their kiss, a sentence in smoky gloom.
They said they were madness stitched in silk,
A love too coarse for their courts of milk.
But their vows echoed through silent nights,
Unwritten, unseen, beneath chandelier lights.
Their moonless eve fled with a star,
Chasing freedom past gates ajar.
Juliet wore courage like a silver crown,
And Romeo wore devotion to tear it down.
Guards closed in like books of sin,
Split in dusk—half flesh, half wind.
Romeo fought like a legend fed on rage,
While Juliet hid in ink along passion’s page.
A rumour crawled into royal ears—
A lie that birthed a thousand fears.
Poison passed lips that knew no wrong,
And love was buried in a funeral song.
But not for long—oh, not for sleep,
Romeo rose with vengeance, dark and deep.
Unarmed, he strode to that silken throne,
Grief on shoulders, truth alone.
She watched—alive—in the crowd that roared,
A twist of fate, our tale restored.
The poison was tricked, a sleeping spell,
Awakened by tears where silence fell.
They did not die—they rewrote the end,
Built from pain that dared to mend.
Their names were whispered through velvet halls,
Two outlaws painting over laws.
Now time recalls what blood forgets—
Not tragedy, but love’s regrets.
Romeo and Juliet live in stories told by flame,
Witty, wild, and never tame.
The avalanche came, but still they stood—
With laughter carved in the frozen wood.
It crushed their rules and spared the name,
And in despair, they found a claim. (MBB)
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