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A Continuum

Janae Mitchell

Free verse
It is in the so-called middle of ones life...
that the realization comes...
perhaps with novice hindsight...
that you are not the first.

Which means,
after sober contemplation,
that you are not the last.

Words steady us when it is our turn,
and console us during the denouement.

Entering in knowing this,
makes one aware once more...
of the whimsical fragility of the human heart...
and the beauty behind a twist of fate.

About this poem

Written about the changes a person can face at mid-life.

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Submitted by janaem1973 on November 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XXX XX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 424
Words 88
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 2, 4
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