Have I not, laden with my melancholy

      Have I not, laden with my melancholy
      Dose of liquid dreams, poured all out at your want
      And gilded laughter on my lips' disease
      Til your lips Midas' taste? And have I not
5     A little nation of desires spent
      In the sovereign country of your thigh?
      Or the fission of all my atoms burnt
      Like a penny candle, extinguished by your sighs?
      And have I not, the gold of owning love
10    Out of my pockets picked, made towards you
      With all the winking signals of a delighted ship
      No matter what tars in my ballast moved?
      Still I'll burn my tars, and my weightless body wreck
      If you'll still prove a catching coral for my wrack.

 

From the collection "XXX Sonnets"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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