The Scorn and the Swindle
(A Tanka and a Haiku)

You can't a true heart handle
With all the scorn and swindle;
Once it'll your peace plund'r,
You can't but then just wonder:
It was such a brute blunder.

So, I'll forev'r just wait,
I'm perhaps more than a brat
That you thus berate.

//Thought for the Dawn//

- ℳ𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝒶𝓃