This month’s sonnet is a reimagining of one of the most-played Australian hits released in the last twenty years. In it, the narrator compares his new, envied relationship with a compelling woman to plunging into a dangerous sea.
A MIGHTY UNDERTOW
Of dentists and of darkness I was scared
Of talk with pretty maidens over tea.
But now in jealousy my friends are snared:
In dreams, they’re conjurers whose maid is thee.
My love, ‘tis like a mighty undertow
hath called me in and swept me out to sea,
where shadow’d currents whisper what I know:
Thy left-hand man is what I long to be.
My heart is full when singest thou that song
My lumpen throat is aching. ‘Tis absurd,
but even though the words are always wrong
‘Tis still the sweetest sound I’ve ever heard.
I could not bear to hear thee say farewell.
Wilt thou abide with me, my love? Pray tell!
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The song is Riptide, by Vance Joy.
