TRUE LOVE SONNET

OH IF A MAN'S PROCLIVITIES

COULD BE ANCHORED IN ONLY ONE BAY

WHERE THE TIDES ARE CALM AND SOOTHING

PROTECTED AND SHEILDED FROM STORM'S AFFRAYS

TO APPRECIATE THE VESSEL THEY FOUND PLEASURE IN

AGAINST THE COLD WINTER'S SLEIGH OF WAVES

YET WITHIN THEM THEY HAVE STRONG URGES

THAT LEADS THEM THUS SOMETIMES ASTRAY

FROM ALL THAT IS GIVING AND NURTURING

TO THE TEMPTING OF THE NEW ONE'S TEMPORARY DISPLAY

ITS EXCITEMENTS ONLY SHORTLIVED WITHOUT LOVE

SOUL DESTROYING CONFUSING CAUSING CONFLICT

ANIALATING ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THEIR THRONG

FOR LUSTY JAUNTS THAT BRING NO COMFORT

THAT CRUCIAL SPIRITUAL PEACE OF MIND

LET THE TEMPTATIONS TEASE THEM

BUT KNOW THEY ARE WRONG

IF THEY COULD FIND STRENGTH WITHIN THEM

TO IGNORE AND DENY THEIR THREATS

INNER LANDSCAPES THEY WOULD DISCOVER

STAYING WITH THEIR TRUE ONE COULD ONLY ENDURE

FEELING A MOST EUPHORIC PERPETUATING PEACE OF MIND

SURELY THEY WILL HAVE SENSE TO SEE THEY ONLY HAVE

TO BE LESS SELFISH AND TO THEIR LOVED ONES

MORE ATTENTIVE NOT FREE TO WANDER BUT

EVER KIND

Painting by Claude Joseph Vernet - Entitled Seaport By Moonlight 1771

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