Sonnet 540

I held the world ransom with my pen

Daring that I would soon reveal it’s sins

And bring rank faults unto the scathing scan

Of every eye that deftly truth defends.

The world laughed and said “you silly boy,

You are of lowly birth, what can you prove

And from the throng, who hears a lonely voice

That ever could dark hearts of stone so move?”

You are correct suggesting I am one —

But every line begins by single word

And words unto more words beget a song

So sung by lips of truth ‘til all is heard.

There is no greater lever held by man,

So heed my quill and ‘give me where to stand’.

Loubert S Suddaby poems