Last Step
Hunting the distant banks
Of one lost remembrance
A reckoning came upon me
Excuses left askance
My tracks grew large
As midnight’s table turned
The prey had changed to predator
Of a memory left unlearned
The dark repeating whispers
my soul afraid to tell
Until its breath upon my back
—last step my fear to quell
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 20, 2018
Modified on March 13, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 384 |
Words | 60 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 2, 2, 1 |
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