Photo by Helene Møller from Vendelsund in Asker municipality in Norway the 13th of July 2024.

Sonnet 116-ish

Maybe I shouldn’t disturb those who agree totally

Or maybe I should? Love is not love

If it changes when distracted,

Or goes with a player to play:

Oh, no! It is constant like the Northern Star

That looks on storms and is not afraid;

It is like a GPS to every car

Whose value is unknown, although its make is noted.

Love is not thrown away, when temptation

Comes along;

Love doesn’t change under pressure,

But stays loyal until the end of time.

If this is wrong,

I never wrote, and no one ever loved.

© Helene Møller 2026. All rights reserved.

Poem discussed with Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude. Microsoft CoPilot (two versions) and OpenAI ChatGPT.

In conversation with William Shakespeare’s «Sonnet 116».

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