In My Lifetime I Have Seen (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to William Shakespeare)

In my lifetime I have seen governments defaced,
a world turned on its head in a new unruly age,
in flames twin towers I have seen down razed,
primitive natives plundering I have seen in rage,

with tsunamis I have seen gigantic waves gain
in rampage as man with HAARP destroyed the shore,
in the Netherlands the soil reclaimed from the main,
the loss that comes from continual time of war,

after victory to natives the changing of state,
where lives, the set structure and government decay,
where now about these things I do in life ruminate:
as people do kill, plunder and want to take all away:

but yet in all of this I do not you, my love, which is still true loose
where back to my career spoilt by affirmative action I cannot choose.

[Reference:"Sonnet 64 When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced" by William Shakespeare.Poet's note:"HAARP is the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program."]

© Gert Strydom