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Sonnet No. 49

There through a hushed moment, I watch you snooze

Beneath slanting sunshine amongst the hours

My fingers have chance to rove, wondering who’s

Luckier than we in this love of ours.

Your thought still spins me around – makes me smile –

Though the sweetness of the present’s gone,

I’ve encircled the past for just a while,

Like a captured rock in your orbit drawn.

But when my caress strokes your arm just so,

Your eyes open to mine and those lips part;

Your hand draws me like it’ll never let go,

To kiss me like Time itself we’ll outsmart.

This feeling is something to hold onto

As memory delays the final adieu.

Sonnet No. 50

I know this book’s no work of art, at least,

It’s far from what I’d nursed in my vision

Of a tale to tell of spirit not decreased

By the loving intent of its decision.

In the end, you’ll think my work is a stunt,

Planned and executed in dull hubris,

Because my love is something you do not want

And use that knowledge as a thing to dismiss.

But for this poet, there’s no pretending

What passed between us left no impression,

For like a pentecostal flame unending

You’re burned in me like a deathless expression.

But now, I’ll let tears flow and put this to an end;

Just know, I wish you the best, my beautiful friend.

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