Left To Live



If you've nothing left to learn perhaps it's time to go.
Today, what will you discern? What will you come to know?

If you've nothing left to sate perhaps it's time to waft.
Today, what will you create? What will you come to craft?

If you've nothing left to dote perhaps it's time to keel.
Today, what will you emote? What will you come to feel?

If you've nothing left to live perhaps it's time to cave.
Today, what will you forgive? What will you come to waive?

If you've nothing left to tend perhaps it's time to pass.
Today, what will you transcend? What will you come to class?

If you've nothing left to grace perhaps it's time to fold.
Today, what will you embrace? What will you come to hold?

If you've nothing left to sire perhaps it's time to part.
Today, what will you inspire? What will you come to start?
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AA XX BB CC DD EE FF
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 801
Words 154
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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