Oh the joy! He feels, a rush en-veined on a day of rains as this,
Green fields be-lie, basins below - in his valley of un-shamed bliss,
For besides his being in a flow of white, is the flight of a light-skinned angel,
Cherub of form, and soulful in voice – forever the sinless rebel;
A trip, a fall, a laugh then smile – as they run throughout their sedated mile,
A life not felt, through him now moves, the daemons they have a rival,
Exult, removed but still he holds the one beatific secret,
For what he hides deep down, he knows is the umbrage of the marplot;
He holds his heart in an iron claw of constant, unclad raking,
For she could not know of his careless past, a nightmare of his taking,
But for now, in the stark fresh sky and the water’s star-bright gleam,
It has hard to conceive a difficult thought in the presence of one so clean;
To sit them down upon the soils of lovely cedar green,
She looks upon his very soul, for the girl knows where they hath been;
* * * * * * * * *
Out from the cold and wilderness – we enter beauty’s cask,
If leave you will then leave me be - you can but do but ask,
The night that beauty died upon this open-fielded plain,
I know that o’er the hill alone no love ‘tis to remain;
In open-climes of air and free – her lip of velvet trembled,
A pang of innocence be-witched the face – above a thunder rumbled,
Be-numbed, the pain behold, the shame for he the foolhardy,
Besotted by one, and now she speaks the words he fears on parley;
Strange to he, the words he hear's, collide and lie the same,
For she sought to find and found the truth and for this he bears the blame,
Now he stares, ashamed, and ‘for this!’ she claims as her frame becomes transparent,
He doth feel her pain within her doleful tones as his wrongs became apparent;
Harbingers could fall, earth’s reigns could stall, but now there is not much ado,
For he hath failed upon that one great task and so end’s the sonnet in two…
Reason for writing:
I was inspired by Byron for the poem's style, but the poem is inspired by one word - lies...
Birth sign: Gemini
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