Love Is (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after William Shakespeare, after Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Love does not have impediments; do no alternate the heart and mind,
is true in conscience, like the compass to the pole and is a act of will,
it does not excuses, problems, temptation or wrongs of any kind find,
it brings joy, happiness, bliss, tranquillity and does stand against all ill,

where it does encompass the breadth, depth, height in its own essence,
do measure with ideal grace and in the tempest it stays on the true mark,
in all things it does stick to what is right, has compassion in its presence,
do not waver by circumstance, is not changed by time or when it's dark,

love is secure with firm beliefs, childhood faith, is steadfast does not roam,
stands objective at the very precipice and in everything does stay unshaken,
in jeopardy under the influence of fate it does not to other objectives come,
it is timid, kind, enrapturing and extreme judgements by it is never taken,

love change not in days, months, years, centuries or aeons or do presence loose
it cannot be bought or sold: it is principle, passion and compassion put to great use.

[References:"Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds" by William Shakespeare."How do I love thee, let me count the ways" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.]