The Gates

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master #101

Published on August 16, 2021

The Gates

The Gates

Sonnet — An Invocation to The Master #101

How far yet stretch the mind frontiers,
How many valleys and peaks remain
Of ideals and norms perforce to cross,
Oh, am seized by a poignant refrain.

What melody yet remains to be wrung
From this little battered heart of mine,
How many woes to drum up Thy song
From my frail flesh and a mind broken?

Oh a meagre term doth the body bring
And most its uses were for Thee given.
Canst Thou not find in eternity long
For me a single redeeming strain?

Part now the gates of Thy reluctance,
Into Thy ambiences grant me entrance.