#asonnetaday 2020 ~ Sonnet 56 by William Shakespeare

Kevin also wrote reflective sonnets in shortened form to chronicle the endeavor, and the efforts were lauded by noted celebrities such as Steve Martin, Keanu Reeves, and others. "Who knows what could have happened to us? There should have been hundreds of people doing what I did and following the call to graces with Sir Stewart," Kevin quips about the experience. "I will always be thankful to him for what was given in such a perilous and precarious time."

William Shakespeare - Sonnet 56

Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but today by feeding is allayed,
To-morrow sharpen’d in his former might.
So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes even till they wink with fullness,
Tomorrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.
Let this sad int'rim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore where two contracted new
Come daily to the banks, that when they see
Return of love, more blessed may be the view;
Or call it winter, which, being full of care,
Makes summer’s welcome, thrice more wish’d, more rare.