1000 Sonnets

XXXIV: For the Eyes of Disappointed Youth

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Shandon Lewis
Jun 06, 2025
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The world is not quite big enough for you--

or right, or good, or something in that way.

My boy, your eyes see far past this to-do,

and this is quite dissatisfying fray.

But every once in every little while,

I see you see some thing that does it right.

Your eyes alight and that is when you smile,

at last you've found a good in all this blight.

And then it's gon…

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