Where pink is like romance ere daybreak, dense Wi' import, burning on the East t'avail, A fire which seems t'oertake the blackness, hale In what, precisely? youth by now pretense Is't? On but three hours sleep, I've no defense, This dragging me along must do sans bail, As coffee is some dragon I'll to scale Do battle with when I've some strength for sense. Tea-lemonade for drowning sailors'd cure Me halfway, if at all, where Milo's brew With "Simply Lemonade" I'll take in tour Along to keep my chin 'bove water. Blue Heav'ns warm as sparrows chirp likeas to stir The dead (and I'm death warmed oer): I need You.
26Oct24a
A week ago on so little chance for rest, I was barely able to pull off work and struggled to write one sonnet. Believing this day would follow suit, I titled it thus...to be foiled since tea apparently helped keep me indeed above water.