Sonnet 22 ~ One Love

Sonnet 22 ~ One Love

There is no apparent sign of aging as I look in the mirror,

Through your eyes, I relish in life’s beauty;

But, as time carries on three-fold, and inflicts you alongside,

Then I’ll know time’s toll quavers near.

For as beautiful silk gracefully adorns my body

Your beauty envelops my heart,

Two hearts beating as one… your heart lives within mine;

So if this is truth… how can I be perceivably older than you?

Take care of yourself my love

As I take care of myself, not so much for I, than for you;

You live within me… your heart the most precious notion

I protect it as a carefully as a mother heeds her child.

Your heart remains with me beating beyond the end of mine own.

Your greatest gift to me… your heart residing amid mine forever.

~ j. marshon
adaptation w. shakespeare sonnet 22