To every man his weakness

KNIGHT: my heart sings in anticipation of pleasing you.

LADY: has my gallant knight forgotten not to be rude?

KNIGHT: how so? My fair maiden confuses my soul!

LADY: where lies your chivalry, the etiquette I know?

KNIGHT: has the limitless stock I flaunt gone sour?

LADY: that is yours to say, oh! Connoisseur of flowers!

KNIGHT: I despair at your use of comments so strange!

LADY: oh! Come-come, my dear! Exchange me for cheap change?

KNIGHT: please, my lady gloom threatens my mood.

LADY: when did you learn how to brood?

KNIGHT: oh! Desist; I rode two nights just to be with you.

LADY: yet you lack the sense to place my foul mood?

KNIGHT: I beg you my lady, cease this show of inanity!

LADY: look beyond my beauty, there lies your remedy.

KNIGHT: oh! What ill fortune has ravaged my bliss?

LADY: speak to your self? Alas! The point you miss.

KNIGHT: what does this evening’s events portend?

LADY: look up to the skies as a rope out of your despair.

KNIGHT: essence of my happiness, in your eyes I’d rather stare.

LADY: there, you may never find a solution to your plight.

KNIGHT: better to look unto their mesmerity, and lose my sight.

LADY: I ask you, look to the stars; tell me what you see?
KNIGHT: I see my pain reflected in a dark blue sea.

LADY: Do you not see me? Search my knight, search!

KNIGHT: I see countless flecks of sparkle, but fail to find thee.

LADY: Oh! Lover of things sublime, has it fled thee?

KNIGHT: I know not of what you ask, pray tell.

LADY: Has your seers’ gift been stolen by fatigue’s spell?

KNIGHT: My maiden, never have I known you so!

LADY: My knight, never have you failed me so!

KNIGHT: Failure will never be the virtue of the slayer of your pain.

LADY: Yet you fail to make sense of sunlight in rain?

KNIGHT: Co-owner of my Eden, my heart bleeds, why?

LADY: Look again. See those lights in the blanket of night?

KNIGHT: I do. Yet! How do they explain this strange night?

LADY: See as they outshine others cowering in their wake?

KNIGHT: So how does this explain your strange state?

LADY: You rode for two nights, yet you failed to see?

KNIGHT: Oh! My panacea, what was I supposed to see?

LADY: Two beautiful nights, clear skies, but yet…

KNIGHT: My steed and I had not a moment to fret.

LADY: Did the heavens not serve you as a guide?

KNIGHT: True! They were there throughout the whole ride.

LADY: Did you not marvel at their splendor, my knight?

KNIGHT: True! But my mind was on seeing you in my sight.

LADY: Then I will have you know that you erred.

KNIGHT: My damsel, my elixir, is it not enough that I am here?

LADY: I will have you know why I deemed you rude.

KNIGHT: My heart shall gladden if you sincerely do.

LADY: I will have you know the reason for my mood.

KNIGHT: My soul shall conquer the stars if you sincerely do.

LADY: My knight, did you know that the heavens celebrated your coming?

KNIGHT: How so? Beautiful rose, source of my calling!

LADY: As you rode to me, I saw the flight of that star yonder,
From my parapet, I gazed at it in unexplainable wonder,
‘Twas not long that it caused my heart to grow fonder,
It traversed the heavens swiftly, as the night grew older,
I watched it come! I watched it come!
By day, though the sky was bright, I saw it.
I stood here, earnestly anticipating night, yearning it.
At last it came. The star had made it!
‘Twas moments later I saw your radiant face.
I searched the skies and also saw my smiling face.
Your star had embraced mine, causing the others to bow.
Then you come in the flesh, no inkling as to how!

KNIGHT: Oh! My beloved, is that your quarrel with me?
Then my rudeness was because I failed to see…
Fail to thank God for showing me to thee.
Failed to thank him for guiding on my steed.
Forgive me my oversight my love, oh! Forgive me.

LADY: I forgive thee, as the heavens are my witness.
On this day I have learnt that “To every man his weakness.”