Life's Sonnet #59 - A Lover's Dilemma

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Life's Sonnet #59 - A Lover's Dilemma

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2011-11-25 09:46 PM

What to do now, when everything is gone?
Your presence haunts me whether day or night.
Will I be to the bottle of wine drawn,
To stay the midnight's pain of sorrow's bite?
Within the world there are trinkets to use,
Sometimes we fondle and mutilate them:
To the great chagrin of our lovers true,
A rose of beauty reduced to a stem.
Most of my life I have lived all alone,
On my own from personal, open war.
I pen these farewell words to you and moan,
The pain in my heart is a closing door.

How many more lonely hearts sit and wait,
For news of their lovers; the hurt is great.

©November 23, 2011 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,--Wild

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2011-11-26 10:51 AM

Oh Jerry, What a heartfelt write! You have out done yourself again my friend. The agony of separation and the bliss of together...you nailed it.

Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-11-26 11:12 AM

Thank you, Lori.

~*~ He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,--Wild

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