Eternal Spring Collaboration

The longest shadows start and end the day like thoughts that creep from embryo to grave so here within the midday sun we pray to not be where the shadows misbehave. But even in the bliss of summer highs, bold thunder clouds roll in to snap and sneer. When daunting lightning fractures purple skies, its striking beauty slays instinctive fear. A child has dreams of what life may become, as elders wish they'd captured all those dreams, but in the midst of life we all succumb to fate and its bizarre unwritten schemes. Yet in the face of unexpected pain, we have the strength to confiscate the quill, to change the tune of fate's unsung refrain. Then, from our daring hearts, the ink will spill. It drips on clefs that show us what to sing: a world of notes that paint eternal spring. This is a heroic sonnet that I wrote with Craig Cornish, one of my favourite gents here on PS! I wrote verses 2&4 and line 2 of the couplet Craig wrote verses 1&3 and the first line of the couplet