Wednesday, September 4, 2019

A Sonnet: Dead



Dead


       Done with You, done with You, done with You it was
       Done with dark feelings of despair and done it was
       Difficult it was, a mysterious difficulty to look like a cult like
       Demeanor. It was daunting. It was daunting oh my dove.


       It seemed dispiriting when Your spirit was gone, gone
       Is Your spirit. Your vision, Your viewpoint seems to diminish:


'Dusk has fallen already. Look, the sky is darkening, let's go home.
Enough for today, it's adequate that it's murky dark.'


Is the beloved dead in the dark? Or is the darkness death dead?
In obscurity, in swarthiness He leaves. Gone like a song in silence.
Gone last speckle of green light. We are waiting for daybreak
With a residue of despair. What have You done? Done with it.


The nights are mad... The nights are definitely made for dreams.
Forwarded. Undead. Delightful is Your conduct at dawn.


Abigail Valkenburg 


Descent from the Cross by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Antwerp