Summer Sonnet

From within her chest there burns a white flame

And deep within mine it burns all the same

Not wanting to sound all corny, of course;

I dream of my flame in contact with yours.

I came from the hollows, from a dark cave

To seek your counsel, my queen, and your knave.

My heart had become blackened like the Earth

Yet your smile alone breathes my rebirth.

I hold my tongue, you’re engaged after all,

As hard as I try, my heart does not stall.

The evergreen trees which line the valley

Form a path, a natural alley.

To the golden beach and freshwater lake

Granting just one moment, one I must take.

The cruelty of fate, limiting our time

Loving so distant, the bells final chime.

Having nowhere else for my love to go,

I wrote you this song, knowing it’d show

That my love for you, so great in its glow

Would quell the darkness your lover imposed.