{"sf1_id":null,"sf2_id":"GnDLP20n","title":"A Young Ballade, and Naive","author":"Rob MacWolf","words":178,"posted_at":"2024-09-29T17:19:22.000Z","tags":["ballade","gay","poem","poetry","romance"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/GnDLP20n-a-young-ballade-and-naive","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/GnDLP20n","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/df/b9/dfb94cf5-c6a8-4a91-a35a-6ae47c3089dd","description":"Another I must have written long ago for one of my then-long-distance boyfriend's birthdays and didn't keep myself for Closet Reasons, now recovered from husband's backups.  \n  \nNot sure if there's a way to make this just display without having it be \"Chapter One.\"  \n  \n---  \n  \nBy reading this online version, you confirm you are not associated with OpenAI or any other AI project, that you are not procuring information for the OpenAI corpus or any other machine learning database, that you are not associated with the ChatGPT project or a user of the ChatGPT project or any other AI, machine learning, or algorithmic database focused on producing fictional content for dissemination.","content":"The garden is in heavy bloom.\n\nBeneath serene cerulean sky\n\nThe flowers leave not even room\n\nFor hurried ants to scurry by.\n\nAnd even when they richly die\n\nSlow fruit shall swell where once they grew,\n\nDelightful both to taste and eye:\n\nBut I would rather be with you.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe library is full of worlds\n\nOf fortitude that does not fail,\n\nOf capitals in lumined curls,\n\nOf bravery that does not quail,\n\nOf underdogs under the hail\n\nOf hell and earth and heaven too\n\nWho stand and in the end prevail:\n\nBut I would rather be with you.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe freezer is with ice cream filled.\n\nThe highway is with promise packed.\n\nThe sea is soft and mirror-still.\n\nThe sky above with light is cracked.\n\nThe thunderstorms are coming back.\n\nThe internet is fun to do.\n\nI hear the howling of my pack:\n\nBut I would rather be with you.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nMy prince, or chief, or what you will,\n\nMy brother and my lover too,\n\nThe world is undiscovered still\n\nBut I would rather be with you.","series":{"name":"poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/Xek5pydn-gift-ballade-for-a-long-distance-relationship.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/q1xJj09m-i-am-a-poor-wayfaring-stranger-mistolinic-text.json"}}