Now Your Love, Dwells There In Hellish and Lost Dreams

Now Your Love, Dwells There In Hellish And Lost Dreams Deep the cold at foot of our abandoned bed where roses wilt, praying early frost to die Green-eyed monster laughing loud to be fed your new "friends" gladly providing the lie No pleasure in revealing this most foul deed no solace in showing past pain in new light Was too late once you took on the bad seed turning once bright day into darkest night What of fantastic past joys we had both shared morns wrapped in warm bodies refusing to rise In darkness, my soul and heart was ensnared took years to recover from that surprise. Now your love, dwells there in hellish and lost dreams My spirit glows in relief, in love's true streams. R.J. Lindley, Sept 12th 1976 Sonnet, 11 on 10.... Poem Syllable Counter Results Syllables Per Line: 11 11 10 10 11 11 10 10 0 11 11 10 10 0 11 11 Total # Syllables: 148 Total # Lines: 16 (Including empty lines) Words with (syllables) counted programmatically: N/A Total # Words: 116 New Note( the old note and its cursing deleted)- These decades later the powerful dream still comes attempting to haunt. I wake with a smile knowing I survived and eventually prospered...