So , I wrote a sonnet...

I read the beautiful sonnet that has surpassed the ages, from Elizabeth Barret Browning, written in 1850 something.... One of the most beautiful, expressive sonnets of all time.. Then I decided to write one of my own, with the same title.. and got rightly carried away!! Ha ha so, now it is more of a SAGA that never ends than a sonnet!

How do I love thee?

I love thee with the truth

Of heartache and of tears

Between the grace and all the bitter years

I love thee with all the measure of the rays

From the sun’s unfaded grace

I love thee with the hearts’ pure complexities

In every secret corner of souls desire

Deeply and purely, with rivers of emotion

To the edge of heaven and the core of earth

With freedom and in bondage’s girth

I love thee with every failing breath

Filled to the core of pride’s death

With hunger and thirst and emptiness

I love thee with brokenness and dissatisfaction

With bended knee and satiated heart

I love thee with waiting and wanting

And the laughter of the morning

With the expectation of days’ dawning

In quiet needs, by day… by night

I love thee in every facet and corner of human longing

To every need and every craves’ belonging

Out of every reach of mankind’s depths

Idealistically, realistically, romantically, passionately

I love thee with the senses underneath my feet

I love thee with power and glory’s feat

With my dreams reflection in your eyes

With resolution of all the fruitless searches

I love thee like all the songs in churches

With raw instincts & the very breath of heaven

To every mountain top and steeple

In every language ever learnt on the tongue of every people

I love thee with the loudest shout of inner voices

Like a river, like a flood, like a hurricane

With the deepest depths and highest heights

From the brightest sun to the darkest nights

I love thee truly

I love thee gracefully

I love thee steadfastly

I love thee fiercely

I love thee completely

And even death’s end shall cause me

To love thee even more dearly.