Fates Retort
To live beyond the moment,
and write as love doth now befriend
It’s light burning brightest
as my hours grow short
The beginning reunited
with the journey’s end
All memory imploding
on fates retort”
But the window stays open,
my heart beating faster still
All time enslaved in a final breath,
one last line to say—I will
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 07, 2016
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 61 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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