I Once Cried To Be Stardust In Your Eyes

I once cried to be stardust in your eyes,
lighting your tender heart with heavenly glow
as treasure to you, fallen from bright skies
for blessed kindness, sweet love you would sow;
yet such gift was simply never to be
my passionate embrace you never felt
I sorrowed alone in my empty sea
while upon gold altar of fame you knelt.

Tis this great burden I must stalwart bear
for in my fear I dared not pursue
a goddess of beauty and raven hair,
more I feared, farther away you flew.

I once cried to be stardust in your eyes.
As treasure to you, fallen from bright skies.

Robert J. Lindley, 6-23-2020
Sonnet, ( The Many Sorrowing Paths That Fate Spins )


Note: 6/23/2020
This was originally written for a contest.
I never entered it because it became a sonnet
instead of the seven verse as required
by the contest stipulation.
I simply could not bear to shorten it..

Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2020