Final Epilog
By Chris Commodore©2021
Wheel me out from this cold darkened room,
For one last whiff of glorious sunshine’s glow.
A final spell to shed the grip of doom,
Before I join that somber realm below.
And when I’m gone, boast not; you have not won.
My soul’s just loosed from this life’s brutal haze.
All fruitless toil and endless drudgery done,
Your seeming victory’s but a fleeting phase.
No more your brutal strangle hold to dread.
The cross has freed me from this eerie stage,
He’s promised me fixed time with God instead,
And crushed your tide of restless hellish rage.
From earth I’m gone, in heaven to reside.
There never more iniquity to face.
O glory be, secured near by His side,
Eternal love, abiding in his grace.
If you believe, you too will see his face.
A mustard seed of faith, one thing it takes.
Salt of the earth to guide this fallen race,
And stamp one’s claim to promised heavenly stakes.
About this poem
One afternoon, a nurse told me a bizarre story of one of the patients who requested that she, the nurse, take her out of her room to the sunshine outside. She complied with the patient's wish; within a few minutes after being wheeled outside on the sun-porch, the patient died. As I meditated on that incident, I wrote "A Final Epilogue."
Submitted by ti.min on December 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH HIHI |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 925 |
Words | 188 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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