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One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets - 67. a million voices speaking at once
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Sonnet No. 133
When you are tired and your muscles ache;
When the day’s stress rides hard on neck and blades,
Lay yourself down, and your burdens forsake,
While I light candles that your bad mood dissuades.
Over your tense form my fingers make a stake
To claim the right to mine with no withholder;
To drain from your worries by daybreak,
So you will dazzle every beholder.
But the night has just begun to awake,
And the candles’ scent in our brain smolders –
Raise your arms, and let my hands undertake
To massage you, and melt our composure.
And if a stray kiss lands perchance here and there,
You’ll find my bargain’s payment is more than fair.
Sonnet No. 134
Time is short, and it grows ever fleeting
With a million voices speaking at once
For attention; for hate; for love; seeking
To stop destiny’s crush that Man confronts.
Sometimes I see me picking up a book,
Where end-papers have ‘born and dead’ brackets,
Squeezing the author to the course his life took,
Negating all that he was and transmits.
So, how not to bend to soul-crushing fate? –
For if I saw my own lived/died timeline,
How could it then any more motivate
My impassioned drive to fortune outshine?
Yet, our voice won’t perish, because the truth,
And Love, speaks clearly to the heart of youth.
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