Keith D Trestrail Poet Sonnet

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Kiss of Fate

Gone are the splendours of simplicity
  when youth and innocence did life portend;
now my days are filled by complexity
  and sweet utopian dreaming at an end.
Thus I am not a man unversed in sin
  nor a beguiled fool to splendorous love -
truly within I feel unforgiven
  and each sober thought this reminds me of.
Soul-destroying are the long stolen years -
  its conscious slow death, its visceral grief
that cheats me of all my passions and cares
  and robs my identity like a thief.
I am alive and broke no hallowed vow
but cold the kiss of fate upon my brow.


           Written: October 1991

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