Workshop(s) 2016 | Page 63

Sonnet

Alex Gloth

How could the grass eternally be green;

Would leaves not fall and flowers wilt away?

No one can see the unexplored ravine

And yell back to cure all of naïveté.

The sun cannot forever light the sky

To stay the day before made beautiful.

Shadow will come to shroud your precious eye

And call will come to reap harvest fruitful.

Where will his carriage pull over to stop?

One knows not what lies at path’s own dark end

And awaits the horse to make its end clop

To find what last lingers beyond the bend;

Yet know as I lie here in yearning wait

The truth will soon reveal its hidden state.