Poetry Thursday 51 - Life Chart

 A villanelle-style map for your life. A poem consisting of five tercets and one quatrain with repeated refrains. 

Life Chart

 

Considering all that has gone beforehand,

from the simplest beginnings to the complexity of life,

not knowing where one’s balance centres stand.

 

The early influences in retrospect seem bland,

when young changes are without real strife,

considering all that has gone beforehand,

 

Not long before the storm of scale grand,

where every crisis cuts like a knife,

not knowing where one’s balance centres stand.

 

Then when clarity seems almost at hand,

when existence is with less strife,

considering all that has gone beforehand,

 

A single occurrence shakes that self-brand,

as would an affair upset the wife,

not knowing where one’s balance centres stand.

 

That is the pattern on your personal headband,

that will take you into the afterlife,

considering all that has gone beforehand,

not knowing where one’s balance centres stand.

©David L Atkinson July 2024 

God Bless