rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin - 16. with all your might

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Sonnet No. 31

When viewed from the vantage of the cosmos,

We live but a fleeting day, like a spark

Cast from a campfire to drift morose,

Until alone, we finally fade to dark.

Tempus fugit – often how have we heard;

Carpe diem – no time like the present;

Such concepts used to seem far from the Word

And clichés to ignore as unpleasant.

But every Truth remains to find the way,

Among the drifting embers of our mind,

To reignite what’s real and have us say

“Though life is short, it’s love I seek to find.”

So, from the distant, stellar point of view

Our chance to connect flies before we’re through.

Sonnet No. 32

In life, few times are our expectations

Bettered or best by a reality

Knocking the wildest imaginations

Down with flesh-and-blood sensuality.

And so we are blessed it looks when your hand

Decides to enfold mine within a cloud

As soft as a billow, but firm as land,

Laying my dreams abed in your arm's shroud.

Too many are the sensations you give

When your love surmounts Reason’s shortcomings;

Too many are the daydreams that won’t live

‘Cause the realness of you serves them drubbings.

‘Fantasy,’ I hear you tell me with spite;

If so, why then hold me with all your might?

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