Sonnet 154 ~ Love's Inferno Be Ablaze

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