Do not pretend that you might come to want
the precious gem I once gave you for free.
It’s only ‘cause I hoped that you and me
would bond that I have waited. Now I can’t.
Attentions now directed not towards you,
you find you’re in withdrawal from the shine
my dancing made when I sought you as mine.
The payment of the piper has come due.
Would you give up integrity and play
me? Just to stay the apple of my eye?
When you held back before? Do not deny
it! Want to dance? Then yield the coin and pay.
If you are not sincere that I have won,
do not deceive me; let me know it’s done.
Author notes
Bowlesian Sonnet (rhyme scheme abba cddc effe gg; volta somewhere within Lines 9-13). Intentional variation to meter in Line 2.
Sonnet 13 of When You Were Mine
2009 July 14
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