Sonnet #17


With hope and glory lost amidst the rain
I thought no more of kissing your soft brow
And joy was found where boys have often lain
Amidst the comfort brought into the now
Your name was but a seraphim of joy
Your touch a touch that haunts the deepest hour
Oh how I prayed to be but just a toy
To climb your hair up to the fabled tower
And then in days so whisked away I fall
With eyes that see the pebbles listless glows
So soft, I thought I heard a singing call
With tunes that memory tells the loins it knows
     Do I dare turn on chance it be your gaze?
     The cherubim's voice haunts my lowest days


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