Sonnet IV – The Tragedy

From dark places with dark thoughts, I return

Aware now of malignant agendas

Dream-woken and passion-weary, I yearn

For simpler days spent in love’s soft splendour.

I have seen verdant vistas turn to ash

Cerulean seas dry Vermillion

Bastion walls, weak pretenses, can’t last

Fragmented victims, numb’ring millions .

The rigours of Love are manipulations,

Poesy and art, a form of Vengeance,

Our lives, an illusion of salvation,

The tragedy, our struggle with sentience.

Love; thy necessary mechanism

Thou art but a primal despotism.