Forever has passed



Until the stars burn down

Leaving nothing but a silent town

Until the oceans dry up

Leaving my tears stale

My skin kissed but pale

Until we exist in more than moments  

 

Until the world wears out

A child's face no longer left to pout

Until the planets collide  

Nothing but a hollow sound

Morning and nights, round after round

Until my smile and sadness learn to coincide

 

Until my sorrow wears to bone

Your laugh, now nothing but a death tone

Until the wind calms another day

Weeping yet prying for the moon

As the sun screams, left aswoon

Until my soul has nothing left to say

 

Until my eyes forget that face

That dress, delicate, with lace

Until my heart forgets your mind

Every strum of your guitar, played just fine

Until my lungs forget your every breath

The flowers you gave me, awake from death

 

Every now and then I think about our life

Daydreaming just to pass the time

A singed mess

A bitter hope

But all I am is stress

The weight on the end of your rope.

Breathless my wounds sob

The bell tolls, the hour comes

But I'm ready for the moon to leave the sun

I'm ready, time to overcome.

About this poem

So many promises of "forever" are made, so many promises broken. I wrote this poem to symbolise what forever truly means. It isn't so easy to defy the word forever when it is clear that forever actually means something and holds wait in its definition.

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Written on February 08, 2022

Submitted by saskiasm on May 08, 2023

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Scheme A A X B B X C C D E E D F F G X A G H H X X I I X X J K J K X X X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,168
Words 282
Stanzas 34
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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