Sonnet V: Paramour Poem by Folayemi Akande

Paramour

Virtue best may reside in Beauty
Or lost in consent fortune still
Thy brow to dance, with smile strong as steel
Who hast heart but embrace not thee?

'nless their vision at all not see
Nor it, nor no glee of thrill
Or of any laughter dose of peal
Before then gaze upon thy ever fresh of hue.

Thy charming chime chide me hence
Leaving my unsang song to theft
Alas! My sweet song now to mourn
Sailing my hope upon a stream so tense
And billow ever atop all waters of the earth
As if never to your beauty I have to sworn