Sonnet 999

I wonder if you ponder just like me

All that could have been, if life did permit

Many more months of joyful harmony

Free from the black dog’s bottomless pit

Two trips around the sun and it’s all changed

My yearning turned to bitter resentment

From one another, we’re now estranged

All this I thought would lead to contentment

Instead my soft heart aches with each beat

As you leap forward, unaffected

I lay here remembering that last meet

The last time our sweet words were connected

But the beauties of life persist in the present

Vivid sunsets, vibrant rainbows, the vain moon’s crescent