I Loved You before I Ever Knew You
Shakespearian Sonnet
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I loved you before I ever knew you: I had a premonition of you,
Years before we ever met, I dreamt you would somehow exist,
Even then, I had a revelation I hoped would come fully into view,
Truly, the days were long before you, but how could I not persist?
I knew I’d recognize you by the bright light of your soul, for instance,
The gleam of love within you could betray the words you would express,
Before we spoke, who could have told them fairer from such a distance?
So many thousands of miles we’d trek before we’d know a first caress,
Then moving closer still, what gift of fate drew us then adjacent,
That you could discern with your own ears my love so humbly pled,
And hearing then receive them with a tenderness so renascent?
Who knew that my idea of you, before these words were ever said,
Fulfilled a gift of prophecy that would serve to carry us through?
It’s no less than a wonder how I loved you before you ever knew.

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Then she was a rage, a frenzy. She led to the edge and kept him tottering with a cadence he couldn't solve...Something in him wept for fulfillment. It was a birth. Something ached for birth. It came teased to life, straining to break free. It was meaning. It was the significance he sought: the secret throb of life. He shuddered with bliss.

“What’s left of me to stitch
Has yet to be sewn,
It doesn’t cover all the glitch
Or defer the beeping tone.

I’m pulled apart by my limbs,
Wires strewn about like streamers
The pouring coffee that brims
About to spill, before waking dreamers.

That moment just before
Before you close the door
Reset my regret, my dear,
And leave me to be no more.”