Wherein doth lie despair
Thus to raise it's hoary head
All happiness happily to despoil?
Betwixt hallow'd contentment
And cruel honesty
Doth it lie;
Feasting there on future's dream
Clawing bloody love's pale shadow
And in it's foul insistence
Doth force all hope to flee,
All faith dimm'd eyes to see...
Kevin Wyndham Heard
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-no-3-the-awakening/
