Goddam Sonnet 10

Oh please I'm begging you on bended knee,
You whom I find so easy to love, though
You have made the word wicked mockery
And should blush in shame, I beg you to show
I had reason to esteem you so high.
Reassure me I wrung such agony
From my heart for two endless years, to die
By degrees for someone uncowardly.
Divine my shallow en-graved emotion,
Renew the silver stream, the life-giving
Senamensing of my old devotion,
Only through love are we truly living.
You could be intrepid if you but choose,
There's naught but bone dry bitterness to lose.