NaPoWriMo 2022 - Day 27

 April 27, 2022 - write a “duplex.” A “duplex” is a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown. Like a typical sonnet, a duplex has fourteen lines. It’s organized into seven, two-line stanzas.

Finality

The rush of life as we near its end
Our youthful dreams seem to descend

Dreams of youth now fill my nights
Those carefree days of fields and kites

We'd roam those fields at summer's close
while grieving autumn's highs and lows

A grief unanswered as a child
Meaningless to the young and wild

And yet the wildness goes untamed
By youth refusing to be shamed

For shame means more to those who try
and fail. On knees we pray and cry

The tears we cannot comprehend 
The rush of life as we near its end