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# A Sonnet of Me
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/a-sonnet-of-me/
- Published: 2017-08-05T20:11:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-20T23:06:27.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Poetry Marathon 2017, #Love and Romance, #Love and Devotion, #Philosophy and Truth, #13

You asked that I write a song of me  
And, humble, I could never think to be  
So bold, so arrogant - if yet true;  
But this is me, and of me, just for you:  
  
A soulful one, am I, depths fathomless  
To most, currents lost in my soul's progress;  
And, losing most while wand'ring through my life,  
Alone, I find myself, at times in strife  
  
And so, seeking for still a better way,  
Beyond culture's customs, I'm known to stray  
More pleasure, perhaps, I earn than peers;  
Stirring sometimes, unwittingly, human fears  
  
Chafing often at such consuetude,  
Exam'ning life's and love's true magnitude -  
My mind and heart swelling with all I've found:  
That love and life and beauty yet abound  
  
When willing parties will dismiss affray,  
When expectations dispelled today,  
When we let live and grow our hearts' true bliss,  
When we dispense the fear of two souls' kiss  
  
You asked that I write a song of me;  
And song I write, 'passioned wish to free  
My heart, my mind of cloistered walls o' time,  
Released into romantic seas, sublime!  
  
With all my heart and mind, I love; it's true  
Some paradox of love: Many, and you —  
Always my heart and soul munificent,  
Yet I find, still, a mind's predicament:  
  
How may one prove such a love is true  
When love is shared by many, not by two?  
When love is bound by only truth and trust?  
When love is love, and lust merely is lust?  
  
A poet's words flounder when love is lost;  
A lover's words decline, if you accost  
Her alimony, disesteem her way;  
So, suspend all your fear, let love allay  
  
An uninhib'ted life; let love be free:  
I've found this truth proffered most sensibly  
The depth at which I founded through my life;  
The core of me, infused with love, is rife