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Death of My Death

An Acrostic Sonnet

By Patrick M. OhanaPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Death of My Death
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Death of my death tomorrow or today

Enveloped in a white sheet of blueness

Athena never left me all the way

The truth had to be within her trueness

Have you seen the news of another death

Over the span of a moment in time

Fenced in by a deterministic breath

More of the same with a different rhyme

Yesterday death ruled every poor corner

Dispatching itself like a warmonger

Each one will become a lifelong mourner

Albeit with good luck also much stronger

To be in love with life one has to die

Heaven hath no beauty like a death cry

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The game was over before it began. The Cosmos is rigged from the beginning of our morning understanding of what it is to be both aware and alive. Born to run until a gun stops the race and another soul is lost in space where time is relative at best.

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The Dead South - In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company

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Patrick M. Ohana

A medical writer who reads and writes fiction and some nonfiction, although the latter may appear at times like the former. Most of my pieces (over 2,200) are or will be available on Shakespeare's Shoes.

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    Written by Patrick M. Ohana