(One of the writing prompts/exercises/homework for the poetry group I go to, was to write a ballad. So I wrote one).
Your eyes were like two pools of blue
Your hair as soft as silk
Your lips were like a red, red rose
Your skin as white as milk
I asked if you would walk with me
I asked you for your hand
You promised to love me true
I gave you a wedding band
And then we had some very good years
And I know that we did thrive
But one night you crept into my bed
And you were cold as ice
You had been out all night
And from your lips came lies
I found the man who stole your heart
The man who turned your head
I found the man who took my love
I found him in my bed
I loved you more than life itself
I loved you, oh so much
You have surely broken me
And now my mind is touched
I was enraged, I saw red
I just didn’t know what to do
I’m quite sure that I lost my head
Now you will lose yours too
I took an axe high in the air
In frenzy, I did swing
I chopped off your lovely head
And then took back my ring
And before he had a chance to run
I took him out as well
There was some blood, just a bit
Before his body fell
I burned the corpses that same night
And put your heads on stakes
And now you are together forever
And lots of love can make
And now I’ve found another love
Only now it’s me who’s blue
For I’m a rogue and a scroundrel you see
And I am never true
I wish and hope with all my heart
She’ll find me in our bed
With another, in adultery
And she’ll chop off my head