Challenge
Light 8 Candles
Hannukah will be celebrated from November 28 through December 6 this year. I invite you to have your own Festival of Lights. Write 8 rhyming couplets about your hopes, wishes and prayers.
8 times over
I hope to be wrong
To be so, brings sorrow headlong
Up is down, black is white
Belief over fact, this is not right
In the maze of a lab rat with no end in sight
Kept in the dark when we have to have light
Loud speakers of lies hiding the science
Choosing to fear over defiance
Told to sign off, it was for the best
This choice, science says, may harm the rest
Scared and afraid, I will get the call
Slipping as fruit from trees, a windfall
Save my family, one and all
In is now out, short is now tall
Please no, I am not that strong
I pray to be wrong
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