Day 20: Star-Crossed

Use the word star-crossed in a poem, from prose-n-bows, Thank you!

I studied Shakespeare every year in school
but the year I read Romeo and Juliet
was the year I stopped believing in love at first sight
and I never understood how you can love someone
so much you'd sacrifice yourself for them.
But I analyzed Shakespeare's words
and I wrote my essays
and I knew I would never be so foolish.

Until I met you.

Isn't that how the story always goes?
It took me one second to run into you,
one second to hurriedly apologize,
and one second to notice your hazel eyes.
You were confident and poised,
while I was insecure and submissive.
Like Romeo and Juliet
we were star-crossed lovers--
destined to end in tragedy,
but I didn't care.
And I finally understood
how Juliet had fallen so hard
because I too was on my knees
and I didn't want to get up.