Love and Truth
Love and Truth
by sharon jean McCormick spivak
Feb. 6, 2021
We loved with passion for a time.
Together intertwined as one.
Our love rhapsodically divine,
So deeply felt it left us blind,
To time and truth which now had come.
We fought that Truth as best we could,
Attempts to push it far away,
Into, perhaps, a distant wood,
Away from love “misunderstood”
But Truth would not be long delayed.
Alas, we stood across the room,
He held belongings in his hand.
We stood in silence - in a tomb,
Where once we’d felt our new love bloom,
Not realizing where we’d land.
The day he left we both shed tears,
Each facing truths we’d come to know.
If only Truth weren't quite so clear,
I watched him ‘till he disappeared,
Amidst the newly falling snow.
About this poem
I wrote this poem in an attempt to use the poetic style of Robert Frost’s THE ROAD NOT TAKEN and to capture a memory long past.
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Written on February 06, 2021
Submitted by Sharon.spivak on August 29, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 756 |
| Words | 158 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 5, 5, 5 |
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