Petrarchan Sonnet: If No One Else Breathed In This Wide, Wide World

Petrarchan Sonnet: If no one else breathed in this wide, wide world If no one else breathed in this wide, wide world Will one know one exists under this sun Or how will he guess he’s the only one If none thought of him in some other world Will he then climb upon some hill all bold To announce: Where is there another son Not just the wayward scowling wind undone By thunder – great tyrant out to scold Alone bears this man the pain of mankind Left to look for answers in porous sky None else around to guide his erring hand If he but an instant shut his lone mind Even an attosecond long gone by Will earth and sky stay true not second hand. © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013