This time I feel the explanation should go at the beginning.
This was the prompt I was given
Vesna (a Goddess in Serbian mythology) is walking through the park one evening and sees a couple breaking up. She wants to stop it from happening. I gave the male and female leads names (Serbian names hopefully if the name guide didn’t deceive me) to make it easier to follow the dialogue. I also specified who they were talking to in case that would be confusing. I have never done a poem 100% in dialogue so this was an experiment (not a purposeful one this is just what happened lol).
Mihailo (to Ana)
The only time I ever dance
Is in the ghost of your smile
It is your happiness that I seek
Even above my instinct to predation
It is not for lack of hunger
That I disarm these hands
I wait that our love may grow
Beyond a reactionary carnality
Ana (to Mihailo)
I am not the innocent that you endow
With uncompromising virtue
I cannot be the object of your worship
My heart suffers that I should deceive
I grapple faithlessly with the notion
That providence has abandoned me
My lover resides amongst the stars
By my own frailty, perished
We pretend, cease your fruitless wait
For no heart have I left to give
Mihailo (to Ana)
Tragedy has rendered you fearful
Do not renounce our love
Ana (to Mihailo)
It was loneliness that brought us close
You were merely a diversion
Mihailo (to Ana)
Your words mislead, do not speak
As if our relationship means nothing
If you would leave then speak only
Of your trepidation
Do not vilify yourself on my behalf
I know what I stand to lose if you go
Ana (to Mihailo)
I must go, better that you find
Relief in my guilty conscious
Mihailo (to Ana)
I find no pleasure
That you should suffer
I am the one lacking
I could not ease your pain
Vesna (to both)
It is vanity to claim omniscience
You have only to follow your hearts
Vesna (to Ana)
It is too late to keep distance
If you go now you will sicken with regret
Here he stands pleading before you
There is no greater gift
Would you turn your back
On such a blessing?
Would you dishonor those lost
By ceasing now to live?
Ana (to Vesna)
I would not forget those deceased
Would that not be a greater dishonor?
Vesna (to Ana)
Would your departed wish you
To remain crippled by grief?
If such a sadist was he
Then he was never worthy of your tears
Ana (to Vesna)
He would not wish for me this fate
That I, have in self-pity assumed
I understand now that I mourn
For my loss, not his
I was afraid to love too deeply
Lest death again betray
Ana (to Mihailo)
There is no man more deserving
If you will still have me
I know my heart capable
Of reciprocation
What do you say Mihailo
Care to try again?
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