18th January 2014

Sonnet 73

29 years in the jungle* - behold!

God's last chrysanthemum they failed to land,

Duty, honour, all the stuff that goes cold;

 Not how or what we sing but that we sang.

(Small Internet of Things running us day

And night - wherever that is - East to West

Secrets hoovered up like leaves, stored away,

No freedom's too big to be laid to rest.)

Chemistry's in us - oxytocin's** fire

A post-coital glow , burns so we don't lie,

So faithfulness takes some time to expire.

My advice (in spite of science) - Stay Strong!

Can 29 years really be that long?



*Hiroo Onoda - the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in the jungle 29 years after the end of WW II.

**The  hormone of love and cuddle chemical