"Why do you need to publish these?",she said
A fair question and quite difficult to answer:

'Twould best be if these lines were ever read
A message from the now to the hereafter
Though any love for me, you had, has faded
As reality supplants your need for dreams
And your appetite for me has become jaded
As you no longer need me in your schemes
Now you have ended this I must concede
My love has gone so let's not dwell upon it
But let this live whilst yet a man can read
As the bard concluded in his eighteenth sonnet

'So long as man can breathe, or eyes can see
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee'