FROZEN FLAME: a sonnet--award winner

FROZEN FLAME: a sonnet


How long shall I wait that my love may come,
One day from somewhere unknown, unannounced?
My heart has over time too old become.
Love feelings from it have now all been trounced..

The flame of love cannot be rekindled,
It, too, resides in but a mortal frame.
In course of time it too does get dwindled,
Remaining though a flame only in name.

A frozen flame cannot be ignited,
Nor can the frozen heart resound a beat.
By darkness dark can never be lighted,
To youth, old age must one day give its seat.

Shall I repent that love could not be mine?
No Lord, I have Your love. I know You’re mine.


• Initially written as entry 418357 in the book LOVE POEMS, "LOVE POEMS" . Posted as the present static item on 27 July 2008.

• Third place winner in Poetry's Prism, "Poetry's Prism" , round 169, August 2008, organised by Tammy



M C Gupta
9 April 2006