Sonnet 155

By Tim Arnold

On Sonnet 155

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Unsure, yet so sure

And never surer upon your shore

Sun blinded by smile, I sleepwalk to save

Every step from a fall

Each sensation from a name

Any picture from any frame

Your flame

Flickers and growls, purrs, then it prowls

Filling the footprints of a slave that dreams

To your light, your light

Chaining your waist

Into my brain

By holy nectar

And back again

I’m saving energy for truth

With a golden smile and a broken tooth

As all your powers put me in tune

With every sonnet sung for you

You tame the untamed

And break me in a child’s laughter

As cream is crashed o’еr crushed fruit clusters

Sweet, then savagе

Here in and forever after

I want you

I want you

I want

You…

…from the brink of nativity

To the tomb of all time

I’m saving energy for truth

With a golden smile and a broken tooth

As all your powers put me in tune

With every sonnet sung for you