Petrarchan Sonnet: If no one else breathed in this wide, wide world

Petrarchan Sonnet: If no one else breathed in this wide, wide world

 

If no one else breathed in this wide, wide world

   Will one know one exists under this sun

Or how will he guess he’s the only one

   If none thought of him in some other world

 

Will he then climb upon some hill all bold

   To announce: Where is there another son

Not just the wayward scowling wind undone

   By thunder – great tyrant out to scold

 

Alone bears this man the pain of mankind

   Left to look for answers in porous sky

None else around to guide his erring hand

 

If he but an instant shut his lone mind

   Even an attosecond long gone by

Will earth and sky stay true not second hand.

 

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013