Your Answer

Your friends would have viciously gossiped and jeered, your parents have shouted: "No way, how bizarre! What does he live on, to be sick he appeared? Hands off, this odd fish is as old as we are." I wanted the best for you, therefore I feared declaring my love would have gone much too far. Dispel nagging doubts now, so please let me know: Your answer would certainly have been a no? September 09, 2022 OTTAVA RIMA Poetry Contest sponsored by L. Milton Hankins 8 lines, 11 syllables per line rhyming pattern: abababcc