dear wife of former marriage will you be
entrenched forever in your hidden spite,
against your former husband tauntingly
in flaunting other men who are more right,
when each succeeding man, like one before,
has failed as per his character so wrong,
who rush so passionately through your door,
and exit likewise at your final gong,
while all the while the husband whom you left,
so steadfast here remains the best of them,
yet suffers silently of wife bereft,
a prince among a crowd of pauper men,
open your eyes and see what you once knew,
i hold the only heart that loved you true
(C)2012, Christos Rigakos
Jun 22, 2012
Jun 22, 2012 at 7:16 PM UTC
dear wife of former marriage will you be
entrenched forever in your hidden spite,
against your former husband tauntingly
in flaunting other men who are more right,
when each succeeding man, like one before,
has failed as per his character so wrong,
who rush so passionately through your door,
and exit likewise at your final gong,
while all the while the husband whom you left,
so steadfast here remains the best of them,
yet suffers silently of wife bereft,
a prince among a crowd of pauper men,
open your eyes and see what you once knew,
i hold the only heart that loved you true
(C)2012, Christos Rigakos
English (Shakespearean) Sonnet
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