Eternity

Eternity is a darker poem inspired by the unbribe-able nature of life traveling towards death. Using rich imagery I pursue the visage of death through the many ways we try to influence the 'ever-after' and the ultimate futility such efforts. The culmination of the poem is to deny death power.

Each stanza is four lines and there are 8 stanzas. The rhyme scheme is A, B, C, A (meaning only the first and last lines of each stanza rhyme). The first and third lines each are 14 syllables and the ...