For A Friend

 

I find that as I lie here on my bed

Admonishing myself for what I’ve thought

About the one whose love I’ve long times sought,

The love I feel for you cannot be said.

The lonely tear that from my eye is shed

To prove the pain with which my heart is wrought

Cannot expose how I feel so distraught

And by my yearning show how I have pled.

But in throughout my anguish I have seen

This love surpassed by nothing in the world

That ever was or will be yet foreseen

In any place, be earth or water swirled.

Before I allocate my heart to you,

I must be certain that you love me, too.

Author's Note

A modified-Petrarchan sonnet that I wrote a little over a year ago...I'm always experimenting with sonnet forms.