Surrender. {Italian Sonnet.}

-Surrender.-

A shattered picture frame was laced in tears
Trickling down from Mary's tattered young heart
Your manipulative games tore her apart
Alone under the stars, she stood on the pier
Wondering: "How could he leave me down here?"
She replayed your sick game; from ending to start
Swearing at the moon; she surrendered her part
As the wind chanted tragic secrets in her ears.

The rain fell down and washed her memory away
As your bullet was inscribed into her brain
Blood imprinted in sand; all along the bay
A fallen soul - - letting go of her pain
Heaven welcomed another Angel today
Mary - - with wings drenched from a final bloodstain.

© Jenna Elphick
October 6, 2006.

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Italian Sonnets have 10-11 syllables per line and is composed of an octave (rhyming abbaabba), and a sestet (rhyming cdecde or cdcdcd) or in some variant form, with no closing couplet.

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