To See

©  Steve King  2017

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To see.

Such distractive sense.

The eye goes everywhere

there is a movement,

or that unsought touch,

or faint reflective answers

in another’s distant voice.

Always something here

to hold a moment and mind.

Yet still impossible to spy

the one who masquerades as me

in all that waiting world

where these fool scenes unwind.

Sonnet Six

© 2017 Steve King

All rights reserved

I don’t know what there is to write of love,

though others fill such pages quite with ease.

I can’t distill all meanings as I please,

describe sensations which are true enough

to colonize all realms of thought.  I pause

at each astonishment that visits me,

and every unsought thrill that comes to be,

and never work to wonder of their cause.

All sly analogies escape my care,

and each coquettish fancy that occurs

belies the feeling that ought only stir

in truest commerce with the heart’s affairs.

            In grand comparisons I will not delve,

            for love should seem like nothing save itself.