The 99 Poem Challenge
Fox-Trot-9
63. Lauranelle — Brooding
All too often, family life crumbles to ashes, sacrificed on the altar of success.
—Melanie Jean Juneau
My world is on the bladed edge of fate,
Whereon the scythe cuts down the will to strive,
In which a curse marks out my blighted date.
How am I then expected to survive
The slings and arrows of such circumstance?
How can I overcome such odds and thrive
Beneath the constant motions of this dance,
In which I struggle daily to keep up?
I want t' explore beyond the narrow prance
Of wishful thinking o'er this vile setup;
I need my peace of mind and space to breathe
If only interruptions would let up,
But constant drama pins my dreams beneath
The iron heels of endless family rants!
So Stephen King was right: the world has teeth,
And it can bite you anytime it wants;
I'm left to wonder why I'm still alive
To suffer every setback that still haunts
Me with the specter of another fight,
Wherein there is no joy or hope of light:
My world is on the bladed edge of fate,
In which a curse marks out my blighted date!
(To be continued...)
A/N: The Lauranelle, created by Laura Lamarca, is a hybrid variation of both the Villanelle and the Terzanelle forms, 22 lines in length as opposed to the 19-line length of the aforementioned classical forms.
Meter: Iambic pentameter
Rhyme: A1bA2 bcb cdc ded efe fbf ggA1A2
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