Sunday, April 26, 2009

Church Hill Sonnets (I of VII)

Sonnet XXXVI (Church Hill I)


The decent down Church Hill is lined with trees

With their limbs stretched up to heaven in praise

They form a cathedral roof with a maze

Of boughs intertwined to catch the disease

That falls from the firmament to appease

The lusts of earthly thirsting hearts ablaze

As though this balm of rain would aptly raze

This passion that would incinerate seas.

Yet do I love without reason or rhyme;

In fact, all stands against this fire to try

To extinguish it with tears and a sigh

Before all is engulfed in fueling time.

The road I tread is dark. Too dark to see.

Maybe I’m wrong and there’s no fire in me.

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