True Self

"True Self" is an sonnet written on 19 August 2009 by Anthony J Fuchs.

Containing 140 one-syllable words, it is an example of a maximal sonnet.

Original text
Each time I look at her, I am in awe That she would choose to spend her life with me When she knows all my faults, and each foul flaw; She sees some side of me that I don't see. I could not guess at what she thought she found That first time that she laid her eyes on mine It might have been a sense that we were bound, Or matched by Fate; she might have seen some sign. Each time she looks on me with eyes so blue I catch a glimpse of how I look to her; As half of her true self that makes us two A pair that's more than she or I once were. And so she helps me be the man she knows Is my true self that, when I'm with her, shows.