Mythic Arrogance

"I love you!" she screamed,
and as with the rest of the groupies
I smiled and thanked her
while walking away

"You're beautiful!" he whispered,
touching my face,
and I nodded "You're right!",
gently peeling his fingers away

"We're meant for one another!
Let me love you forever!"
Another awestruck maiden
and my patience wears thin

"How could I love any of you?
Have you seen yourselves? Have you seen ME?!?"
Striding away proudly, my head held high.
She curses me silently, but even if I'd seen,
no reason to care

Arrogance is thirsty work though
so I pause at a lake
and beneath its surface I finally see
someone deserving of me

"I love you! You're beautiful!
We're meant for one another!"
Ecstatically in unison
we declare our passion.

"Let me love you forever!"
again speaking as one.

And we did, for the rest of our short lives,
before dying of starvation,
living only in the eyes of one another.

We died together
but that cursing bitch
dragged my lover's body out
replacing it with her own.

I'm never getting out of this damn tree.