Fear Not, My Love



Fear not, my love.
You are not forgotten.
Should fate destroy this fragile brain,
Still, memories of you remain
In every cell within this frame.
My body will remember.

Fear not, my love.
You are not forgotten.
Should time reduce my flesh to dust,
The very soil of earth then must
Recall our promised love and trust.
The earth will remember.

Fear not, my love.
We are not forgotten.
When neither you nor I exist,
The paths we trod will yet persist.
The places where we paused and kissed,
They will remember.

Fear not, my love.
We are not forgotten.
When footsteps all are washed away,
And lost amid the salty spray,
The ocean waves will rise and say,
"We will remember!"

Fear not, my love.
We are not forgotten.
Should every sea on earth run dry,
Nothing left but arid sky,
Still, our love will never die.
The stones will remember.

Fear not, my love.
We are not forgotten.
If all the world should be erased,
Evaporate without a trace,
Our love would fill the empty space.
And God will remember.

About this poem

I wrote this poem for a dearly loved one who was facing death, afraid that he had done nothing memorable with his life.

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Written on January 24, 2021

Submitted by Laffy'sGirl on August 24, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABccxd ABeeed ABfffd ABgggd ABhhhd ABxiid
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,001
Words 220
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6

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2 Comments
  • Vixility
    Oh man, what an amazing poem. I love how the transient nature of things (including our passage through death) cannot erase the memory of love once lived. How the poet renders this love eternal by grounding it in God’s memory—priceless. I also very much appreciate the poet’s use of meter and rhyme-scheme, parameters that almost always necessitate creative effort and apperception (especially when the work is well done). 
    LikeReply7 months ago
  • Xarxar
    You can tell the words came from the heart, it was nice to understand his feelings
    LikeReply 17 months ago

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