Challenge
Challenge of the Week #59: Modernise Shakespeare’s ‘Shall I Compare Thee’ sonnet. The most masterfully written piece, as voted and determined by the Prose team, will be crowned winner and receive $100. Quality beats quantity, always, but numbers make things easier for our judges, so share, share, share with friends, family, and connections. #ProseChallenge #getlit #itslit
A Summer Day
Should I compare you to a summer day?
Although you are lovelier and more composed.
Because the rough winds of May shake the flowering buds
And summer ends far too swiftly.
The sun shines too brightly sometimes, other times it's dimmed, like all other fair things that can't always stay their best, either by chance or by fate.
Your prime will never fade, neither will the eternal summer lose hold of the beauty you own. Not even death can brag he finds you in his shadow, your youth grows not to death but to immortality. As long as this poem lasts and there are those who read, you will remain alive, even if only in memory.