Being & Becoming
Published on February 22, 2023
Being & Becoming
Sonnet — Daily Poetry for The Master of Works #49
Courtesy Lexica.art
A tardy birth in the pale of dawn
And a weary end in folds of sleep,
Two extents twixt all that is undone,
The desires shallow, the instincts deep.
An animal’s care is all that remains,
A forgetful hunger’s inconstant pursuit,
The aimless motion of restless limbs
And a mind forbid the heresy of thought.
The din of life-commerce dully throbs
Seeping through the veils within,
A hundred cares raise their fevered pleas,
Then are bogged in the drowse and drown.
To Thyself we are pledged till the marrow of being,
Grant us unimpeded works in each our becoming.