SONNET
Reading edition
Like solitary mountain peaks that list And seem to sink in seas of restless grain My love for you goes drowning through a mist Of unrequited, unrecorded pain. Oh, while there’s breath of life and passion still, While yet remains a warmth, a failing flame Within the fallen fortress of my will, Give me a moment of your love to claim. Come let me hold you close in hushed embrace And crush you with the force of fierce desire, Yet by that love no future plan to trace, But just to love that moment to conspire. I will not chain you, though enchained by thee; The memory of your love will prison me.