ANTHOLOGY: Poetry Entry to Atty Awards 2012

Sonnet: "Love's Con Artist"

Love is not the entirety; not the air

Nor the nourishment upon the table,

Not the safeguard on the back as to fare,

Or even the roof’s defense enable.

Love cannot save a precious fading life,

Nor buy world’s treasure to your heart’s desire,

It cannot ease the pain on a lost waif,

Or change to calmness a murderer’s ire.

Though many was tormented for love’s sake,

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry seeks always

A bona fide passion that does not break,

Or an untainted heart in any case.

Though I’ve risked love and felt pain at some time,

I would not change anything for a dime.