Sonnet 154 ~ Love's Inferno Be Ablaze
While Seraph lie asleep
Nearer to love’s potent light,
Naiad’s promised untainted ones
Pass in presence among the realm and
Beauty’s cherished one seized love’s flame,
That had ignited great verve in abundance of faithful amour;
Seraph’s rule thus defused
By innocence’s lovely hand while dreaming.
Diluting love’s fury in cool waters,
Springing fourth warm tides
Pools of warm water awake and rejuvenate the meek;
But, I, prisoner to the object of my affection,
Seek the shallow warm waves of renewal, to learn only:
Love’s flame stirs water; but water doth not calm love’s inferno.
~ j. marshon
adaptation w. shakespeare sonnet 154
