When We Were Yesterday (Nestorian Sonnet)
Ah not so long ago, when we were us, time was all ours!
We let our spirits happily sway in the great fountain
Of faith, where we etched our own history counting the stars
Fluttered in the night sky. Oh, what a passion we had then!
And I kept you in the rosy earth of my heart so glee.
That when you returned, back from a lady boot shaped country,
And seeing you one day, alone, under the glimmers of
A retreating sun, I hurried my shadow along the
Street of for old time sake to hug you, to express my love.
When I had you there was no such hunger, nor thirst in me.
But now as I embraced you, I hardly felt the warmth of
Your blood. I wonder why; is it ‘cause now a cold season,
Or maybe jet lag still eats you? Sure you’ll take yourself off
From my reasoning, and be more fixed on your salvation.
* Nestorian Sonnet is a variant form of old sonnet and in it are three quatrains that rhyme,
with fourteen syllables in each line. Line five rhymes with line ten and it is not necessary to
end it with a rhyming couplet.
Copyright © Ernesto P. Santiago | Year Posted 2009
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