Shackled Sonnets: A Collectio...

By Vien1529

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A collection of sonnets about that which I shall never have. A girl I love, but she loves another. I have onl... More

Sonnet 1: When We First Met
Sonnet 2: My First Move
Sonnet 3: When There Were Two
Sonnet 4: My Rusted Machine Soul
Sonnet 6: Why Did You Move My Soul
Sonnet 7: A Guiltless Crime
Sonnet 8: Haunted By Your Memory
Sonnet 9: A Dredged Passion
Sonnet 10: In Another's Garden
Sonnet 11: What Do You Want
Sonnet 12: The Cast of Poetry
Sonnet 13: Wish You Were A Stranger
Sonnet 14: The Seesaw of My Life
Sonnet 15: Time Marches to its End
Sonnet 16: Into The Heart's Hollows
Sonnet 17: Burn Away the Brush
Sonnet 18: The Art That's Worn
Sonnet 19: The Lonely Fisherman
Sonnet 20: Over the Garden Wall
Sonnet 21: The Tempered Blacksmith
Sonnet 22: The (in)Competent Carpenter
Sonnet 23: The Fire Keeper
Sonnet 24: The Jeweler
Sonnet 25: I Heard a Symphony
Sonnet 26: The Scale of Life
Sonnet 27: Your Image Begins to Fade
Sonnet 28: Not the Real You
Sonnet 29: If I Could Say
Sonnet 30: I Dared to Dream
Sonnet 31: Equal Equilibrium
Sonnet 32: The Best for You
Sonnet 33: The House Always Wins
Sonnet 34: Something Else
Sonnet 35: Cruise with Another
Sonnet 36: The End

Sonnet 5: Enemy of Resentment

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My heart is broken, but I shall move on;

When I see him, rage does not engulf me;

Why be angry when he has justly won?

To pray for this man will grant me the key:
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I see two doors: envy or apathy;

He has but only embraced his lover;

My own cowardice is to blame, not he;

Why lament the blessing of another?
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I shall not be a man of resentment;

To live like that is to admit defeat;

Keep moving forward, that's where my mind went;

The demon that plagues my soul, I shall beat:
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For I cannot lose what was never mine;

Though, my heart for you will forever pine.

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