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Sonnet VII – What’s your apocalypse today, my dear?

What's your apocalypse today, my dear? 
What mean cloud burdens the arches of your brows?
Your eyes are dim and wild with utmost fear
Your lips coiled to spring at children or spouse

I'd be alarmed, my dear, if unaware
Of the nightmares that plague your every day,
But still I cannot help to grouch and glare
And wish you took your worries far away,

For I am, to be fair, easily upset
When the trappings of my wont are thus run,
so, though familiar with your fits, I fret
And tap on my cup and choke on my bun,

My tongue on fire, yet lovingly mum,
Mulling my chances into kingdom come.

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