- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Six Sonnets - VI. The Lover Leaves
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Click hereI love as my heart dictates but my mind
Knows better to reject vain useless thoughts
Which feed on a fiction. Though you may find
My love offensive, I have only sought
Comfort from its existence. However,
Now undeceived, I realize I cannot
Live in this parody which will never
Be capable of a love that is not
One-sided and invented and so let
Desire die. I cannot be honest
I can no longer lie and must forget
Fancy for love rather worldly expressed.
My mind is content that it again wins
Though my heart has failed in so many things.
- COMMENTS
This is by far an excellent ending to the saga of the six sonnets and the most successfully constructed of the six as well. The poem shows an appreciation of the contradictory forces that are indivisible from being human and is mature in not censuring what is natural, uncomfortable as the natural can sometimes be. Very well done.
Very nice. I liked it the best of the six sonnets, and it can exist on its own. I might have done something differently with ".....I cannot be honest
I can no longer lie...." but feel free to take that as a quibble, given the rest of the poem.