The Balcony Scene

Written in my 2nd year at uni when I was studying a Shakespeare module in English Literature - he's always been my favourite playwrite and I tried to capture the mood of one of my favourite scenes in poetry form. Enjoy!

The Balcony Scene:

The scene is set -
A beautiful starlit evening,
With the moon shining down
On a medieval garden.
Shadows are thrown on to
The most intimate objects.
Her beams of light
Make the bushes seems unreal,
Shadows forming weird shapes
That appear menacing to the eye.
The path leading to the mansion
Is like crystals, twinkling in anticipation
Of an awaiting danger - all is not
Well here in this garden of Eden.
Ivy devours the mansion -
Is it a fairy-tale setting?
Partly so my friends,
For underneath this idyllic setting
Is a menace that has corrupted lives
For years - one that has been
Forgotten, but not forgiven.
A ray of light seems to break through
The many sorrows caused by corruption.
Move your wandering eye up the ivy
And observe the balcony that overlooks
This garden of Eden.
Here sits a young girl - barely fourteen
With hair as long as Rapunzel's
Any eyes as deep as a whirlpool,
Sending one and all into torment
The stars sparkle in her eyes like diamonds
Making her shine brightly as the sun.
A figure emerges out of the shadows -
The young girl's lover
She met at a masquerade ball.
He leapt over the dangerous wall
In order to get a glympse of her.
He moves closer so he can see her -
They both see one another,
Suddenly realising they are part of
The corruption that lies beneath.
Putting all differences aside,
The star-crossed lovers make their
Promise to love each other
Until death us do part.
Little do they realise that
What lies ahead is about to
Destroy their lives, but begin
New ones - therefore laying
This corruption to rest.
The garden of Eden with its balcony
Sparked passion and young love,
But when the moon shines,
From now on the shadows will
Show a story of woe
Lingering on for eternity -
With this, the fatal figures of
Juliet and her Romeo.