Another Urn
Death comes to us all, as the saying goes,
But there lived a girl with her fair share of woes
She lived a life not dissolute, but not one of piety,
And only those of integrity and loyalty she did seek for society
And at a tender age she met a man,
Who tempered her ambition and asked for her hand
But the fates would not warn her
And too late would she learn,
That to her shelf she'd add yet another urn
Life moved on, as the world keeps turning,
No matter how the seas be violent, seismic, tidal bores churning
Achievement she sought, and did so with zeal,
For it helped to quell the sleep demon's appeal
But her dark family history slowly let itself be known,
And Death's bending sickle, his seeds planted and sown,
So with a weighted heart and tears that burned,
We're added to the shelf, more and more urns
But soon she chose to seek the beauty in life,
To ride the waves of pain and conquer the strife
And for that time, she experienced joy and glee,
The sense of greater purpose and the flight of the free
Until the day of darkness, blood-stained hands,
Her brother murdered with a hammer, a faceless man
She wrote him letters, but never used his full name,
For only his initials could stave off the pain
And in the anguish inside her that repeatedly churned,
She placed on that shelf, yet another urn
What followed was inertia, dissociation of time,
And she relished the punishment of pain sublime
But in moments of passion and a belief in the soul,
She could see kindness around her, and great change was her goal
Yet the rollercoaster world eventually tired her,
And it took more and more effort to move and inspire her
And when the time neared, for her own death,
A twist of fate resulted in her husband's last breath
For a rewind in time, she begged and she yearned,
But placed on her shelf another urn.
About this poem
It's about trying to overcome multiple deaths, a failed suicide attempt, and the death of the most important person to the woman in the poem. It leaves the reader wondering how she will face this worst of hurdles.
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Written on April 08, 2022
Submitted by sircharlenesir on April 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AA BB CX DEE FF GG HH IA JJ BB XC XX IE KK LL DD MM IE |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,835 |
Words | 381 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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