Beth's Ultimate Life-Changing Prophecy
It used to be responsibility
was something Beth had wriggled from until
she dreamt, yet chose not to reveal, the prophecy
that blessed her life and gave her newfound will.
No longer was her life monotonous,
for not a moment did she waste of it.
And there was not a girl more generous.
Her transformation was the ultimate!
One day Beth went out (seeming frail)
to pick blueberries, never to return.
They found her body by her half-filled pail.
The reason for her death, we soon would learn. . .
A cancer with no cure began, they guessed,
around the time she’d said her life was changed to blessed.
June 27, 2021
for Charlotte Puddifoot's Contemporary Sonnet Poetry Contest
(Irregular syllable pattern; I hope that is one definition of contemporary)
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2021
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