Desperate Hope - III: AKA: Alas, Poor Yorick, I Knew Him:
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Poetic Form: Sijo
Inspired: 2023 December 18
Image: What If We Had A Better Ending by Alex Bledsoe.com
"We've a choice, it's up on the board." ... "Be quick and write it down."
"Do you have it?" "Yes!" ... "Well, let's be away from here, time's a-running."
"There are too many eyes and too many else ... let's move on."
"Here, by the clearing ... now give it here, let me have a look."
"Just as I thought, a bit of a pickle, this is." ... "You can do it."
"I am unscathed ... when I am left to my own devices."
"One deals with timing, a deadline ... consequences--unsolved."
"The other is more philosophical ... leans like a conundrum."
"We will fair better if we take the latter." ... "Alright then."
"These statements are more like questions." ... "Well, best we answer them."
"It's been put to us to task, ... hence, we'll forward ourselves, solidly."
"The latter ... cringe like fingernails scratching in a coffin."
"I've been researching--the scratch!"..."The scratches in the coffin?"
"Alas! Dawn's a revelation ... To be or not to be."
"Is that a question?"... "With a mark, indeed!" "We are doing Hamlet."
"You mean that Shakespeare tragedy." ... "Could be a comedy."
"The Prince of Denmark's line ... he'd surely offed himself, the truth be told."
"His line of Yorick -- years of misquotes, poor William!" ... "Rewrite?
His most voluminous play ... good -- the young Prince is faithful."
"His deep faith?" ... "One who fakes his lunacy?" 'Twas good of him to know."
"I'd think that'd be helpful." "His faith?"..."No, his temperament."
'Heightening endurance and focusing, methinks ... those are the tickets."
"Like the tides ... tamed by forces yond their abilities to stop it."
"Or allow it ... depends on where the benefits may lie."
"It'll be a prelude ... for one to triumph over adversities."
"Also, they will be able to ... follow through on their goals."
"Temperament can also ... control passions and desires.
"This taunting, ever haunting ... prompting on ways to persuade."
"A causation be at dawn's break ... cessation, well to the twilight."
"Calamity, catastrophe ... all be a bit pushy."
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