A sonnet based on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130

Found 

My heart is not of that  expected hue; 

Family is far more choice than blood’s choice; 

If love be true, why then be family true; 

If life be love, solitude lives by voice

I have seen hearts demask’d, older and right, 

But no such hearts see I in their chests; 

And some family is there more delight 

Then in the promise that my heart ever tests. 

I love for my heart be, yet well I know

That family hath a more loving temper of; 

I know I never saw a lover go; 

My family, they come, shift the chance of love:

   And yet, by light, I think my love is rare 

   As any I belied with no compare. 

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