Sonnet 7
Jim January 7th, 2010
To you who felt the blows of broken faith
And crumpled under sheets of drencing pain
Who turned away from dark and cloud-locked truth
I hope to bring you now a healing rain
To ask you now to place your faith in me
To trust the future holds some better light
Believing love this time will stay, not flee
And trust the shimm’ring vision as true sight
I cannot promise days of endless bliss
But rather pledge a love so stead’ly paced
That it will drip like rain pavement ticks
And gently lap in rhythm through your days
To love small, once in each unfolding day
Until the decades wash our lives away.