Is this the world that deserves our softest light?
Is this how we get on with a little fight?
We know we’re not in control
We pull through whatever may arise or fall
But despite convalescing from an affliction
Banefully, we seem diagnosed with manipulation
Either you’re blind or refusing to see
Escaping the decaying reality
Countering every dire theory—
Consciously—with a dreamy philosophy
Not for the sake of sweet innocence
Nor for ignorance’s safe pretense
But for seizing the right to live
Because we ought to find grace in what we receive
To drink from the sacred cup of existence—
To taste salvation without a tang of grievance
So I keep asking with a tainted insight…
Is this really the world I once believed to have a hidden light?
—Nicola An
bloodline broods begotten bots - banefully believing in brainwashed fibs
A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Whose woes wooed me woefully
and banefully banished my love?
Let me be,
I’ll tell this tale
Some other time.
With all my longing long gone
and heart hurting heartily…
Let me be,
I’ll tell this tale
Some other time.
Destiny ditched me dearly
and life left me in a lurch…
Let me be,
I’ll tell this tale
Some other time.
Squall submerged my ship
and sunk me silently out of sight...
Let me be,
I’ll tell this tale
Some other time.
With friends fostering foes
and loved ones lying low…
Let me be,
I’ll tell this tale
Some other time.
Who broke my heart heartlessly
and troubled my tranquility?
Amid a group of gossipmongers
Goad me not…
I’ll tell this tale
Some other time.
If I tell this all-telling tale
you’ll be named in naming of names...
So, let it be,
I’ll tell this tale
Oh well, some other time!
~04/17/23
~Contest: Writing Challenge 'U' words
~Sponsor: Constance La France
Whose woe wooed me woefully
and banefully banished my love?
I'll tell this tale some other time!
With all my longing long gone
and my heart hurting heartily...
Let me be,
I'll tell this tale
some other time.
Destiny ditched me dearly
and life left me in a lurch...
Let me be,
I'll tell this tale
some other time.
Squalls submerged my ship
and sunk me silently out of sight...
Let me be,
I'll tell this tale
some other time.
With friends fostering foes
and loved ones lying low...
Let me be,
I'll tell this tale
some other time.
If I tell this all-telling tale
You'll be named in naming names...
So, let me be,
I'll tell this tale
some other time!
"Your Best Free Verse Poem" contest by SKAT A
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