September 17, 2012- [Far Too] Great Expectations (Sonnet)

I fell into your words without a sound

I must confess, I thought them very real

A burgeoning romance, I mused, profound—-

Each promise that you made, I set the seal

And so did I, in daydream, much time spend

And by your face and arms I was consumed

In deep imaginings without an end

And by your love I thought I’d be exhumed—-

But whispered words in darkness are not truth;

When darkness leaves, truth darts away as well

And to believe such lies is to be youth

A paradox of time that aging quells

So did I think your promise absolute

While you intended no fair restitute—-

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