My Day 7 poem is my response to the NaPoWriMo.net prompt, which is to write either a fib (six lines, with the number of syllables on each line corresponding to the Fibonacci sequence, or 1/1/2/3/5/8) or a shadorma (six lines, with the syllable count by line being 3/5/3/3/7/5). I combined both forms, using the fib for the opening and closing stanzas, and the shadorma for the stanzas in the middle.

I
think
it’s time
to give up.
I know now that you
have turned away from me for good.

You couldn’t
know all the changes—
tragedies,
elegies—
beating me down and around,
sending me to ground.

I lay low
and quieted down
waiting for
the next shoe.
It never disappointed
to disappoint me.

Now this place
far away from home
is my home,
and I must
learn how to get back into
Grace’s good graces.

It’s a slog.
Redemption is real,
but Grace is
a skeptic,
not given to forgiveness;
one has to earn it.

I
place
no blame,
carry no
anger, when I know
you can see only what you see.

(6 April 2021 – posted April 7th)

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