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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESIGNS OF GALLANTRY, by ELIZABETH WELDON
First Line: My future, once so well-arranged
Last Line: I must remember to forget.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Self
First Line: My future, once so well-arranged
Last Line: I must remember to forget.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Self
My future, once so well-arranged,
You have dramatically changed.
I must rearchitect my fate --
Replan my life to motivate
My heart's unordered stop-and-go,
Reducing it to normal; so,
If now and then, if here and there
I still must see you, hear you where
Our paths may parallel or cross
I'll be prepared to feel your loss
With lessened shock. I'll shun regret
For it has healed no sore heart yet.
I'll try to readjust my mind
So I'll not see your type or kind
In other girls; or note the sweet
Your-sort-of-voice of those I meet.
I'll definitely reorganize
My thinking, sure that with me lies
The certain will and drive to make
Designs of gallantry or break
Me in defeat. While through the days
And in my dreams' subconscious haze,
I know I must remember -- yet
I must remember to forget.
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