And Throughout Vast Purple Range, Visions Cascade Down

And Throughout Vast Purple Range, Visions Cascade Down No fictive dream deludes for now, so her heart bleeds And weeping spirit no comfort dares to arrive She that loved him took care of his earthly needs Now hides in darken forest, just barely alive And would hope to her ever really come As she prayed for dear life and needed relief She found that two parts does not always find its sum In her wounded heart was nothing but deeper grief Her precious lover had gone away oversea Alone on dreaded nights, his tender voice she heard And his tall, handsome ghost at night, she could still see In dark, she tried desperately to hug those words. And throughout vast purple range, visions cascade down. And Fate, her young life took with a dark, vicious frown. Robert J. Lindley, 9-11-2023 Sonnet, dark Note a friend asked me to write a quick sonnet. I said ok, I can write a ten to fifteen minute sonnet, and it will be good. Because my friend I cut my teeth on writing sonnets. So, I summoned up my muse and she laughed. She said , I bet you ten bucks you cannot do it in ten minutes. I did, so this is it with no edits. Truly I did not think I could do it but she gave me first 4 verses in about ten seconds,. After that it was me and my old tired brain splashing out ink. In my youth, I once wrote that fast all the time but old age has caught up with me now