Huitain: Do not untimely mourn

From Dungeon Prompts Week Six:

*Write a short story, poem, or share a picture or song that represents mortality to you.

Huitain 

Do not untimely mourn

Though I see your smile daily glow,
These days will pass-by all too soon,
Leaving an emptiness to grow,
Within me ’til I too shall swoon,
Alas, ’tis the fate of humans born…
But wait! Look at autumn’s full moon!
Do not shed tears, untimely mourn,
Sing now with me a living tune.

Huitain: Chad 1978

Huitain

From Poetry Forms:  huitain, French verse form consisting of an eight-line stanza with 8 or 10 syllables in each line. The form was written on three rhymes, one of which appeared four times. Typical rhyme schemes wereababbcbc and abbaacac. The huitain was popular in France in the 15th and early 16th centuries with such poets as François Villon and Clément Marot.

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Huitain

Chad 1978

A long day, seemed that it would never end,

Laying with the children under our bed.

Thinking of those people already dead.
Telling stories: “Kids all’s well.” I pretend.

Listening intently my breath suspended,

When the rain of firey missles began.

Wishing  there existed a God to befriend.

The news:  A Revolution in Iran.

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To Be Continued…