Cupid's Lesson

Surrender, oh Cupid, your arrows
For my heart does sorely weep
I have carelessly fallen in love
With a man I cannot keep

One request I ask of you
Have mercy and accept
Please make him fall in love with me
For I seem to be inept

He is willful, change not that
But more accepting he must be
Persuade him to fear love less
And in thought to be more free

He is all I have ever wanted
All I wish to apprehend
If not for me then for loves sake
The rules of love must slightly bend

CUPID: I cannot do this thing you ask
In the end free will decides
Love, it is a fragile thing
Without will, then love, it dies

LOVER: I beg of you, persuade a little?
You need not change his mind
Nudge him in my direction
My heart is breaking be thou kind

CUPID: My dear, he has made his choice
He had his chance and walked away
I cannot perform this thing you ask
For I cannot make him stay

LOVER: But he is all I have ever wanted
All I wish to apprehend
If not for love than as a favor
A single arrow might you lend?

CUPID: This goes against my better judgment
I cannot condone this sport
My arrows are meant for passion
Not for hunting of this sort

Then Cupid turned his back
As the lover wept and grieved
But what Cupid had not known
Was of the arrow she had thieved

She walked away without a word
With a smirk upon her face
The only thought upon her mind
Was of her lovers sweet embrace

She did not think before she pricked him
With the arrow she had thieved
And it wasn’t before long
That again her heart was grieved

Again she went to Cupid
And she admitted what had been done
She explained the arrow worked
Though still his heart she hadn’t won

He was with her, yes he was
And they were lovers, yes indeed
But love cannot perform
When it is taken out of greed

Cupid tried to tell her
The error of her thought
She could not attain true Love
For Lust was whom she sought