Petrarchan Pop Sonnet

My favorite song is "Grace Kelly" by MIKA, and it describes the singer's fruitless pursuit at changing his identity in order to please the modern music industry.

Here are the lyrics:

Do I attract you?
Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?
Am I too dirty?
Am I too flirty?
Do I like what you like?
I guess I'm a little bit shy
Why don't you like me?
[Chorus]
I tried to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!
How can I help it
How can I help it
How can I help what you think?
Hello my baby
Hello my baby
Putting my life on the brink
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like yourself?
Should I bend over?
Should I look older just to be put on your shelf?
Say what you want to satisfy yourself
But you only want what everybody else says you should want.

I decided to slightly changed the premise of my own sonnet to match Petrarchan conventions. Since most sonnets dealt with unrequited love and admiration, I implied that the subject of my poem was trying to change their identity for a cruel lover.

Upon the stars I see your glowing gaze,
does my facade appeal your sparkling eye?
and in the spotlight of the gleaming stage,
I fear my mien has irked your humor dry.

For you I stir in heedful, sinful acts ,
to reach, to court, to flirt with your divine-
perhaps my wholesome chase is but a crime,
a cry for light with a shrill voice of crass.

I could be painted colors of the sea,
and change my shape to fill your sunken sky,
yet still mine dear lover seethes from afar.

But the humans most yearned seem not to please
and cruel deceit is where your desires lie,
begone and leave but keep the door ajar.


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