Poetry
Love From Grief
A Sonnet
Published in
Jul 6, 2023
after Ginger Scott’s Candy Colored Sky
It was a miracle: we struck on love
when sorrow sang a storm to split our skin.
We weathered well as blows fell from above
extinguishing the fire we tend within;
we ate our ashes. Aching ever on,
our fingers intertwine within the dust;
a passion born of trauma, whereupon
our bodies fell–and some might call it lust
so born of desperation, but we need
in deepest sorrow more than glory’s day.
A lover armed with sutures when we bleed
will stick around, will help you find your way:
or so we pray. I twine myself with you
to shield against the melancholic blue.
Zach J. Payne is a poet, novelist, and thespian from Southern California. He is forever The Hopeful Wanderer, always following one story-thread to the next.
