Pandora's Love

Wearing an armour of wounds 
charismatic with an aura of pain

Hero marches bravely

yet again to conquer .... Love's terrain

A motherly armour of  protection

in childhood he innocently embraced

now a man he longed for .. to adorn

his woman's enticing beauty and grace

The warrior begged for an armour

of her hypnotizing cosset

he bowed on his knees desperate
for his pretty lady's love to get

" Your beauty and charm Oh lady !

is my gateway to ethereal life

please Oh please ...

May I .. hold your pretty frame in mine ? "

Little did know his loving heart

Pandora's outer was meant to test

all knightly valour and virtue 

the fine bred Hero possessed

Engulfing the Hero with

her irresistable cursed charms

the woman swamped his life

 with viciousness

 ............. camouflaged as balms

Conceited and beguiling

she was Pandora in disguise 

smashing Hero's honored armour

with her malicious ways and lies

Hence broken and forsaken

the Hero marches in life's battle

grappling with hope and pain

to resurrect himself from this baffle

True love is secured of a woman

but not in Pandora's corporeal frame !!

it blooms in a chaste heart's Urn

Heart the only hearth of...

devoted and eternal love flame !

                                                               Astra wander