Challenge
Attempt to write a piece where every third word rhymes. Sense-making sentences are more impressive, but agreeable amounts of nonsense are also encouraged.
mark of Cain
Shattered window panes
cannot block rain.
Words cannot explain
the smoldering pain.
Was I insane?
Watching scarlet drain
from my vein,
tiles to stain.
Numbly, I profaned
what God ordained.
Judas’ sin again...
But in vain.
The scars remain.
Mark of Cain.
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(Notes: This poem does not draw from my personal experience, but hopefully brings some awareness to the struggle of suicide survivors. The reference to Judas alludes to the biblical figure’s suicide after his betrayal of Jesus of Nazareth. The “mark of Cain” references God’s Old Testament promise to protect Cain (whom He cursed after Cain killed Abel) from premature death.)
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