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We’ll Never Be Together (Sonnet 12 of When You Were Mine)

As now I know we’ll never be together,
I guess I’ll have to give up on my dreams;
I’ll have to find another who can see
the wondrous partner that I long to be.
Sometime’s infatuation’s what is seems—
potential's glow that won’t become “forever.”

In shadows’ grasp, I struggle for ease.
If only I could make love as I please.

Though hurt, I know this pain won’t last forever.
I’ll have to disassemble by the seams
my fallacies and work again on me—
re-cut, re-sew the cloth and pay the fee
for growth again, install a few new beams—
as now I know we’ll never be together.

Author notes

Butterfly Sonnet with echo variation (rhyme scheme A(1)bccbA(2) dd A(2)bccbA(1); volta somewhere within Lines 6 - 8). No intentional variations in meter. Feminine endings on Lines 1, 6, 9, 14.

Sonnet 12 of When You Were Mine

2009 July 14

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  • geckogirl silver member
    July 14

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    you are a kind hearted soul. Good luck BearMum.


    • BearWoman gold member
      July 14
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      Thank you very much. I did have to take some poetic liberties in order to complete the sequence in the form in which I began the final poem--an English Sonnet that requires a sharp change of direction about 2/3 through. So the entire sequence is not entirely autobiographical.

      Thanks for reading and commenting, sweet one.