Sonnet D'Amour

Draw the curtains, darling, and come away from the window.
Is there not something unnatural in a summer storm?
Lie down beside me while I dim the lamplight.
Do you need those two pillows a little higher or lower?
Move in closer so I can lay my head on your breast -
I like the regular sound of your heartbeat in my ear.
It has been years since I was as near to another human being
As I am to you now. (How strange, yet how wonderful it feels!)

I have had enough of loneliness to last a lifetime,
And once believed that I might not have a chance like this again.
But that was then, before we met. Now I know that the night ahead
Will cancel out most of the pain from the past, and that,
In the morning, the storm will be many miles distant
But you, my love, will still be here next to me in this bed.

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Biography

Mark Ryan studied at Dublin City University. He is native of Dublin - and works as a freelance translator, He has always been a keen reader and have been writing fiction, both short stories and poetry for a number of years. One of his aims is to have a collection of poems published at some point in the future, either in paper form or on the internet.