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Modern Shakespearean Sonnet 3. A Lover Tries to Escape the Past, by Andrew Barker.
Aware that days will come and days will go,
We made those days we soaked in, you and I,
A reservoir to which the memory flows
Whenever days compare to days gone by.
My life was an adventure when we met.
You left, and then my life became a quest
To measure worth in pleasure, face the debt,
Of stories needed just for happiness.
But I remember, each time I confront
The dazzling drizzle of life’s death-scene skies,
How others keep me dry and floating; but,
Our tears come from one well we can’t drink dry.
You don’t have to be going under, Dear,
To want to hold to something warm and near.
Andrew Barker
A love sonnet about the loss of love. Plenty of water imagery in the one.
For "The dazzling drizzle of life's death scene skies," line I had Blade Runner in mind. Rutger Hauer, the pigeon and that speech. In retrospect, I don't think the film has much to do with the poem, but I was after a way of showing times of great sorrowful memory. I use the same scene again in the Sci-fi Love Song Sonnet.
