Sonnet for Jane

by Nicholas Power
(Toronto, Canada)

An adapted Sonnet for Jane

Don't ever say my love was false-hearted,
Though absence often dampened down the flame.
You'll join us with the souls of the departed,
If you vow that I will never say your name.
You were my home, though I may have wandered;
Like a lost traveller come round again,
I honoured lost time, it wasn't squandered;
Let my own tears wash out your grievous pain.
No matter what your doubts about my love,
My weakness does not sum up everything;
I'm different now but not so far above,
That lovely things about you mean nothing.
Our world's the dream of an illusionist;
But you, like a single rose, you exist.



Sonnet 109
for Jane Larimer
An adaptation by Nicholas Power
from William Shakespeare's original

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