The Vows

My love, I make a solemn vow to you, Before our families, dear friends and God, My love will always be completely true, Until one of us lies beneath the sod. I had no thought I ever could defraud This precious man who opens up his heart. The match my friends and family applaud, There is no roadblock keeping us apart. And yet I knew right from the very start, I’d made the selfsame promise to another. I gave to him the whole of my young heart To him I vowed that there would be no other. You cannot know part of my heart I save, For one who lies so lowly in his grave. For Dr Mehta's Spenserian Sonnet contest