The Email's Tale

Refrain

Quickly through streams of light I flew,
bearing this tragic tale.
He sent me with fear and I know,
my purpose not to fail.


I was born at the composer
with just a button click.
Chosen to send the saddest news
that made everyone sick.

I gaped in terror as I felt
the engraved words on me.
I thought of the outcome and shock,
but waited now to see.

My creator checked his hands work
and sent with me the rest.
I stepped into streams of light
that took me to the nest.

(Refrain)

The nest was full of mails like me,
and there she was by fate.
Wearing a silver bar-code dress,
her smile sped my heart rate.

I quickly moved right next to her;
she was surprised to see me.
We spoke fast in zeros and ones
stepping into nest's sea.

It was then time to separate
and sad goodbyes we said.
We split up to our destined paths,
soon we both will be dead.

(Refrain)

I reached my receiver's inbox
and then began to pray.
She was getting ready for the
Writing dot com birthday.

Stunning in purple party dress,
she took her iPhone.
Opening the unread mail her
eyes turned me into stone.

Rage filled eyes bore into my skin,
reading the truth again.
She could not believe what she read
and her head throbbed in pain.

(Refrain)

I was sent from her scared husband
who regrets his mistake.
Only he never understood,
what really was at stake.

I have been deleted and will
join my silver code miss.
While the husband waits for his fate
which goes something like this -

He had burnt black the birthday cake
and now his raging wife,
walked to him, in her mind a goal
and in her hand the knife.


A ballad ~ Four lines per stanza in abcb, defe, ghih, etc. form (i.e. the second and fourth line of every stanza rhymes). Eight syllables in every first and third (non-rhyming) lines of each stanza. Six syllables in every second and fourth (rhyming) lines of each stanza. Twelve stanzas plus a refrain, for thirteen total stanzas.

Prompts
1. "Dark Society's Birthday Ballad Contest"  ~ write a ballad of a tragedy that befell a previous writing.com birthday celebration
2. "The Midnight Traveler's Contest"  - you are email lost in cyberspace.