Last Curtain To Fall



The older I get
The less people to call
Is it by choice

My spirit’s downfall

The older I get
The less then to care
A life once so pointed

With little to share

The older I get

Beginning to end
The ones that stood by me
The ones I called friends

The older I get
Meat gone from the stew
The faces just names
Of those I once knew

The older I get

Doors lock from within

A constant reminder
The blaming now stings

The older I get
The less people to call
No sand in the hourglass

 —last curtain to fall

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2014)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 22, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABx b Acx c A xxx Adxd A x xx ABx b x
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Characters 514
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Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 4, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1

Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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