Inseparable

Emotionally charged sonnet, featured in my soon-to-be-published novel, Facets of Betrayal.

Nor wake nor sleep does pass me by in turns,
Without a thought of love’s last light, nor break
In dawn as I lay open to those fi’rey burns
Of feelings dry, unsaid ‘goodbyes, heart ache;
I hate to love though dare not hate what light
Did make my life that joy which once we shared;
Perhaps in time, I’ll take a stand and fight;
For dreams cannot compete, nor can compare
With summer nights and fire-flies alight.
Be there I rest ‘til Death hath made his rounds.
Alas, there be one battle left to fight;
But dare defiance? Aye, Time will wind down,
And when the day be Fate has claim to you,
Be that the day which I have fallen too.