Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Less Day Than the List [100WW]

There's always less day than the list.
What is it turns time into tyrant?

And time never waits it is true.
Life's end leaves dead hands filled with offal:

And all the deep loves of the heart,
Will fill us and ache us then break us.

But there must be greater than this.
One Day all the tears will be silenced.

What's more, our great heartache will see
Our longings made whole beyond wonder.



I tried nine syllables in both but it felt wrong. Now, first lines, eight; second lines, nine.
The stress falls on 2, 5, 8 in every line.




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