Does It Have To Rhyme?

So you prize the

Lilting lyricals lighting lilly to lilly

At the cost of the dream weavers

Who describe images too deep

For rhyme or trope?

Can meter give hope

To one who only wants truth?

Pentameters and quatrains are whores

Who lend to the shallow hope

That they can be like the great

Classicals who sing and sing

Of wonderous nature and her delights

Yet fail to understand "leaf" and "root"

Still form a tree without rhyme.