Love Adjectively

A rhyming couplet seemed destined to always be together,

The perfect end to 2 sweet lines a bond to last forever.

But one of them wasn’t happy  he had a roving eye,

One day he told his partner the real reason why.

“To always be together? I’m really not that sure? 

You see there’s this verb I fancy  - I think, with her, I could do  more!”

His partner she was furious - “You said that you’d be mine!”

“You and her won’t work at all. Why you hardly even rhyme!”

“That loose lettered libertine and her slutty reputation”

She’s always happy to be a part of all sorts of conjugations!”

“We’re  adjectives, describing words, its really quite absurd,

To think that  you’ll be happy with a grubby little verb!”

“Remember when you tried this before with that tarty little noun?”

“Became a laughing stock -  there on the page, I’ve never lived it down!”

“Oh the humiliation - Oh the shame you put me through!”

“Those verbs are common doing words!  She just wants to do you too!”

The adjective, he tried his best,  to explain how he was feeling.

“Those verbs are always doing something, I guess I find it quite appealing.”

“I spend my life describing things, like a spectator at the side,

I never feel a part of things I just don’t feel satisfied!”

“I feel grammatically constrained. Like I’ve never had the choice.

My whole life’s been determined by passive not active voice.”

“To get stuck in. To move the plot. To be part of the action.

To be right at the heart of things -   thats what would give me satisfaction.”

“Oh really Mister Action Man is that  how you want to live?

With someone who doubles negatives and splits infinitives?”

“Surely  you can see that such an ill matched combination,

Is rarely going to produce a rhyme of elegant sophistication?”

“If words like us don’t follow rules all you can expect,

Is some awful colloquial usage thats grammatically incorrect.”

“I’m telling you you’ll end up in some tawdry little verse,

A  dirty rhyme, a ribald song a limerick or worse!”

But the adjective he was adamant and sure  this love  would last forever,

Soon found a variety of different ways he and the verb could be together.

“Whilst purists mocked their union for breaking all the rules of grammar,

In sentence after sentence  they were  united and enamoured. 

Cos the best lines are free from  prejudice and grammatical repression.

The unlikeliest of pairings  can become  much loved expressions.

Lucky words will find their syntax soulmate, one that fits them like a glove,

And write new lines of  poetry in the Lexicon of Love!