My Sum: Sonnet     (revised)

What sums my life? I ask, as twilight nears.
The yarns I’ve spun, the plots; sapphire nights
of jeweled splendor, lost in empty years,
as lazy dreams, like flotsam, slither by.

What sums my life? I ask with much disdain.
What shows, but nimble semblance of times past,
and unfilled days. What little have I gained?
Gossamer dreams, their tall dark shadows cast

on frail wishes made, through rings of smoke.
A whim, a lark, a star too far to catch;
sweet illusions poetic minds invoke,
castles fashioned blithe, built on moving sand.

What sums my life? I ask, as twilight dies.
As lazy dreams, like flotsam, slither by.              

Carmen Ruggero .2003

Still tinkering -- critique to your heart's content. Till get it right; nex year, perhaps. -- Carmen