The Mongoose

THE MONGOOSE

In her ebon tower through panes of quartz

The mirthless beauty gazed down

 And sought the one who’d come to court

To win her radiant crown.

Lachrymose beads escaped her eyes

To pool on the marble floor;

 No fish’s belly nor fox’s den

Held him who she so wept for.

Many a head had been sawed from its neck

In attempt to win her hand,

Though not for them did the lady grieve

But for thought she’d not outwit this man.

Ne’er could she know in her pearly hair

Had a mongoose made its nest;

And here was the one, transformed by a spell

Who soon would her cunning best.

Weep, for the sorcery works strange ways;

A door moves both in and out.

When one may think his fate is won,

The seed of another sprouts.

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