Adorned

Your beauty glows brighter
Than the gold you wear.
In a bed adorned with blossom,
You sit and veil your fear.
Did you not know
Your heart would thunder?
And the sun would drown
The glittering stars yonder?
Had you no vision,
That this night was a lie?
And forever you’d be plucked,
By a heartless eye?
Can you not feel,
The tresses of your tether?
And know, like these garlands,
Your heart will also wither?
How much longer, oh maiden,
Shall beauty glow with pride?
And the innocence of dreams,
Surpass that of a bride’s?