The symbols etched upon the sill

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The symbols etched upon the sill

Told a tale of wild unimaginable will

It told of lovers so blissfully true

That one died for the other in disregard

Of the words spoken to him,

That his wife was a witch who had cursed him

He bellowed and demanded she be put to the test

Where innocents live to see out the rest

She lived and he died of unimaginable pain

It turns out the man had been cursed instead

He died for her stead, but that cost paid little

She lived for a year before becoming brittle

Her sorrow drowned her close to the tree

Where his body once swung with the leaves

Now both lived happily, free from the curse

Of a witch near by and the words on her sill

That told of their story of romance and will.