Writer on weekdays and English teacher on weekends, Preeyakit Buranasin has a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in English Literature. During his studies, he started writing both in prose and poetry, in various genres. He is an Ananchanok Poetry Award recipient.
There’s Only So Much One Can Do for Love
There’s only so much one can do for love.
No man I know can blow the winds backwards,
Nor force the stars to fall from sky above,
Nor make sweet butterflies fly high as birds.
Though long and hard you may pursue to try,
Your struggle means nothing; you’ve gained defeat.
No song, no poem, no word can change her mind;
No one, no God can make your hearts’ path meet.
I wish the content of my sonnet’s wrong
But my experience tells me it is not.
Yet I attempt against the tide stand strong
And fall like heroes in a tragic plot.
And fall and fall I know I will until
Sun dies, sky falls, dead rise; my love’s fulfilled.
