795. My love lies waning, like the twilight sun,


SONNET 795
By JH Sayyar

My love lies waning, like the twilight sun,
Its golden flame now flickers in the haze.
Once fierce and full, the fire is nearly done,
A ghost that haunts the ashes of our days
Your voice, once music, now is far and thin,
A fading echo lost to time’s cruel art.
The warmth we shared has worn away within,
And silence grows where once beat a heart.
Yet still I hold the shadow of your face,
Like petals pressed in books of long ago
A relic of a sweet and forsaken place,
A bloom that wilted, soft and pale with woe

Though love may die, it does not pass unseen
Its grave is etched in all that might have been.

Post a Comment

0 Comments