Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Last Time They Chose

Isidor and Ida Straus wed

Forty one years when tragedy,

The Titanic sinking, instead

Of boarding lifeboats, he and she

Chose that two others take their place,

And on deck, together they stayed

Till two twenty a.m. to face

Their drowning death, the choice they made.

Ida's body never was found.

Isidor's was recovered and

His pocket watch showed time be bound,

Two twenty a.m. as fate planned.

The gold pocket watch, a gift to

Isidor from Ida, love true.