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Sonnet No. 51
I've had a vision of a future time
When this world will be mired in cruel war;
Wallow in pollution and sink in crime;
A time when both trees and men die rank at core.
They will look back at us and demand to know
How greed and apathy played such a part
When we recklessly let everything go,
Saying the future will be state-of-the-art.
But a beacon shines in my vision too,
A hope, and also an absolute –
A want that none of my foresight will come true;
And a faith in mankind that's resolute.
For eyes yet unborn, but reading these words,
Will know Love as we did ever afterwards.
Sonnet No. 52
Some structures are built of marble and brick,
Others of arching concepts, and of grace;
A Parthenon look of entasis slick,
Or unseen constructs of the commonplace.
Unit by unit these inner stones click
To lift us to what we most desire,
And there curses all that's shallow and quick,
To build something that matters; that's higher.
Though palaces are built for the heretic,
It's the love we lay down one for the other,
One good thought at a time, that's politic,
To build masonry that will not smother.
A spirit finds its greatest pride of place
When love has laid out and measured the space.
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