Sonnet Doubles, Forty Year Span

What Great Love, Our Memory Shall Remain What is left when I am buried and dust ancient grave upon which a white-stone rests vanished shades of a future we did trust as if that one great wave would never crest! What great love or memory shall remain when deepest of sleep, centuries accrue will it matter wealth, worthless earthly gain as paying of the pied piper comes due? What truth, shall weigh in as ones repentance when exposing light shines its judging gleams will sad regrets reduce final sentence or give power to mercy craving dreams? Pray tell, can great sorrows yield forgiveness? Birthing mercy a gift, divine kindness? R.J. Lindley, April 3rd, 1979 Sonnet ************************************ Fate Peeled Back Its Deepest Dark Curtain Fate peeled back its deepest dark curtain leaving nothing to chance, all certain this year the bravest of heroes dies golden streets flooded with angel cries. What justice, one so young shall perish midst of love of those he so cherish roars not a harder, greater anguish than living through and in pain languish With hunger for life, for love's sweet touch so cursed and sadly fated such Fate, its massive powers so decreed greatest hero on battlefield bleeds steps into eternity, no seeds grave now hidden by overgrown weeds! Robert J. Lindley, 4-08-2019 Sonnet in nines. ******************************* Sonnet doubles..... a 40 year span