IMPOSTER: a sonnet--award winner

IMPOSTER: a sonnet


You came and looked at me as if in trance
And told me that I had bewitched you so.
You said you were maddened by my fragrance,
Saying that in your heart my love did grow.

I was a girl not even yet sixteen
While you had seen more than half of the world.
You said one like me you had never seen.
And I easily did believe your word.

This seemed to make you rather too much bold.
I thought it was just a bit of sherry.
The real truth was but yet to unfold.
You took my all, playing but treachery.

Too late did I know your true character.
You were nothing but just an imposter.



* Awarded second place in the “Spidey's Weekly Poetry Contest”, "Spidey's Weekly Poetry Contest" , organised by spidey is studying , August 2008.


M C Gupta
22 August 2008