Madame Reaper

Sestina/Sextina/Sestine/Sextain

 

-Further still, or close at hand?...(1)

-I yearn for that day, you will put me to rest...(2)

-Like the leaves in the fall...(3)

-That gravity has drawn...(4)

-Breaking them free...(5)

-From the shackles of life...(6)

 

-I am barely alive, on the branches of life...(6)

-Death, come near, God's wrathful, left hand...(1)

-I'll trade you  my soul, if you set me free...(5)

-Bring forth my demise, and lay me to rest...(2)

-Aid my escape, with the blade you have drawn...(4)

-I'll bow before you, to my knees, I will fall...(3)

 

-Not one tear shall fall...(3)

-For I live, without life...(6)

-It is in this fact, from which, my courage is drawn...(4)

-Death come close, lend me your hand...(1)

-And it is on this fact, that I, will rest...(2)

-Emancipated, let gone, delivered, let free...(5)

 

-Death, come close, i yearn to be free...(5)

-I'll know you are here, when temperatures fall...(3)

-Come only to me, leave out all the rest...(2)

-Along with my soul, I will give you my life...(6)

-Closer, come near, death in turn play your hand...(1)

-Listen closely, I cry, and to my weeping you're drawn...(4)

 

-I anxiously wait, my last breath now be drawn...(4)

-To pay the price of being free...(5)

-I'll play the forbidden hand...(1)

-Comrades, dear friends, please remember my fall...(3)

-Forgetting my life...(6)

-Be content that i rest...(2)

 

-In the shell that my corpse, lies soundly at rest...(2)

-Away from my trials, i have finally been drawn...(4)

-I take the first step, into the realm after life...(6)

-But why do i feel, that i am not free?...(5)

-My foot sinks and i fall...(3)

-You let go of my hand...(1)

 

 

-Wakeful, alive, still full of life(6), i sit up on the bed on which i lay down to rest(2).

-The second hand(1) of my clock, the only sound i can hear, at three thirty three with my curtains not drawn(4).

-I am not free(5), like the day before last, the sun will rise in the morn and time after time, after time, night will fall(3)...

 

 

*sestina's pattern; stanza one;1,2,3,4,5,6

                          stanza two; 6,1,5,2,4,3

                          stanza three; 3,6,4,1,2,5

                          stanza four; 5,3,2,6,1,4

                          stanza five; 4,5,1,3,6,2

                          stanza six; 2,4,6,5,3,1

 

                            trecet -line one; 6,2

                                      - line two; 1,4

                                      - line three; 5,3 

Author's Note

this is the first sestina i ever wrote

Reviews

[Gazza]

That looks really difficult, u did it really well.