Old Friend
Old friend, I knew you well, weekends eve I saw you last.
Despite fire or best efforts, the outcome is the same.
Yet, day by day, at war with futility.
I sit, in guarded patience as the gradient of what what is and what was shifts.
Continuing cognizance of the shifts. No warning nor respecter of circumstance.
These halls a reminder.
Sounds, then echos then silence.
Baited breath.
About this poem
The general feeling of living with the after effects of loss
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Written on February 17, 2024
Submitted by boddahfly on February 19, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 387 |
Words | 75 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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