Sonnet (I)

Lord Stefano d’Urbino AS XXXII

Best of all is when love is requited
Though better unrequite than not at all
And as aside a false love is love blighted
To say you love and not do is to fall;
For friendship starts by fanning little flames
Grow'st stronger still, as deeds and time make fire
Consuméd friends thus litter charred remains
When deeds of friendship grow into desire;
Most hopeless painful sound of all the world
Is hearing one you love say they do not
But blame and guilt and pressure ought be furled
For tragic ends to dreams come with our lot;
In fact, the simplest known of loving suit
Is heartbreak'd unrequitement may result.