Ophelia (Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5)

Virtuous beauty,
natural elegance,
unrefined grace,
bestowed upon a single woman.

In the gardens,
in the sunlight,
she sits.
Nature compliments
her delicacy.

A fragile mind,
a fragile heart,
a fragile soul,
destroyed by
bitter love.

by Tanna Lynn Pekrul - 1995