Sonnets, AKA more poetry

So sonnets this time... I was warned that there was to be a composition of a sonnet section on our test to I composed these two to prepare. I really like them and have put effort in inserting poetic devices all that jazz. I hope you all will find them enjoyable, perhaps even more so then my other two cause personally I do. :D

The End of a Vain Attempt

So I watch the dawn rise through the pane,

what is there really in the world left to see.

I've wasted and thrown my life for not but pain,

in hopes of finding my soul's true key.

I ran the gauntlet in attempt to run,

to be the gleam I thought myself to be

But the puppeteer always holds the string and runs the fun

and I the puppet could soon no longer see.

As now all is wasted, torn and in vain.

Hope, the bastard born child left to die all alone.

I had thrown my life for naught but a game,

a gamble, a race from society's steady drone.

Now I am left living and breathing in musk,

Living in dreams where bastard born hope hadn't died at last's dusk.

The Weight of a Guilty Shopper

The glitter, the wealth, the attraction to shine,

held more dear at the heart then any lover's promise.

So vain I am when preening to be fine

that no matter the forewarning I walk towards the darkness.

Such lowly sin resides in my heart,

the weakness of my soul for all that burns bright.

That though at most by next season your beauty depart,

the weight of my longing sinks with heavy might

How is it and how easily I fell into sin,

I dig my grave with a grin and my fine gems a shining.

And as waves of time lap away to the din

my soul runs to greet the merry reaper; together we go drinking.

My bones now are white and they prod and gleam against time,

but yet my hands are still reaching still reaching for all that is fine.