The Story ISABEL ALLENDE
is a tale of two unfortunate lovers
they lived in another time;
another place,
in a small Chilean town
two brothers battled each other
fighting for Eleanor’s favor and love
one brother, proud an jealous
and the other, pure of heart
one day the jealous brother told Eleanor a nefarious lie
that his brother had run off with another
Eleanor felt as if she would die
she ran away,
to another town
to live out the rest of her years,
where she could roam
and make a home,
to be left alone with her tears
then one day she returned
to the house her family owned,
and the haughty brother summoned her
for he was ill and near death
he wanted to make wrong a right
and finally confessed
he told poor Eleanor that everything was a lie
his brother too, pined for her
and had spent his years in wait
only sorrow and a broken heart to pass the days
then she ran out into the garden
and there the second brother was
they ran toward another
with tears filling their eyes
By: KMH 2015