Followed the prompt with 9 minutes to spare until midnight! I chose the very first sonnet in Shakespeare's "The Sonnets" on Gutenberg.org to create my own sonnet similar but different than the original.
An Elegy
Time
consumed and a life wasted, a gravestone
Given to the
fool who believed he could live
By his own
means without a love to bind him.
No one will
earmark his place in this life,
Who did he
leave behind to remember him?
His marble
halls, his golden crown left barren.
No amount of
money gathered can stop death.
No amount of
words recorded in a book
Can record
flesh and bone, the scent of his hair.
He is
undone; no heir of his blood remains.
He never
named a woman with his surname.
No child greeted
him or called him father.
He was born
without desire to create,
His purpose shrivels
like a wintered rose.
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