POEM: Art in the blood, Sherlock BBC
Title: Art in the blood
Author: rachelindeed
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Pairing/Characters: Sherlock POV on John. Strong friendship.
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Genre: Sonnet
Spoilers: None, though contains several lines/phrases from the original Conan Doyle stories. Written in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet, though one phrase ("unseemly stains") is from Keats.
Word Count: @100
Summary: Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
Link:
Art in the blood is liable to take
the strangest forms: its light within my veins
glares harsh as noon; my mind ever awake.
Men’s shades and secrets, their unseemly stains,
pass ceaselessly before my inner eye.
I learnt to find the beauty in such sights,
And seeking such, grew blind even to thy
more shadowed fractures and more perfect heights.
I thought thee, first, conductor of my light,
Reflecting only what my brilliance wrought;
Yet thou hast lit for me the path to right,
And changed the very color of my thought.
My age hath found its fixéd point in you.
Thou art vastly improbable, and true.