Romeo

Romeo

Such love exists as has power

to overcome death, yet Romeo

met death as like one who can't

endure the loss of one's beloved.

Never ceasing adoration though

the body wilts and buds bloom

no longer upon his Juliet's lips,

he clasps his own heart in hand

and doffs his hat along with his

brain drawn past orifices —ears,

mouth, nose, eyes all illumened,

still, with longing as though life

could claim him again in some

spirit he may believe to be hers.

[sonnet]