Whose Faulty Vision

Poem: I could compare you to a summer day

I could compare you to a summer day -
No! Summer’s beautiful, but full of doubt,
He smiles sweetly, but he’ll never stay,
And Summer’s cash is always running out.
He laughs with me, then he turns and burns,
He’s cold for weeks, then he’ll change his mind -

Fair? No, unfair! Unaware of my concerns,
Gorgeous? Sure, but stupid, random, blind.
Dear, when you say you’ll stay, you always will,
And when you change, you always give a reason,
You’re too fierce for time or death to kill!
How could I compare you to a season?

You will shine, as constant as a star,
When this poem is forgotten; most poems are.

–Romana Machado, 6/28/95

(Via Kisrael)