sonnet 116

LL: This sonnet offers the challenging possibility that true love is constant and unconditional. It proposes a stillness, a daily certainty of an ‘ever fixèd mark’ within an ever changing world where perhaps the surrounding darkness enables a greater illumination and guidance. I often look up at the moon to inspire that mystery and possibility. I was a teenager when I first heard the profound music of Arvo Pärt; the pauses within the notes held a space of mystery in me and years later still do and therefore seemed a fitting choice to compliment this sonnet.