General Poetry posted April 28, 2016 Chapters:  ...27 28 -29- 30 


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A friend's goodbye

A chapter in the book Life's Observations and Reflections

Please close the door

by fionageorge

 
When you leave please close the door
I don't want to see you cry
I can't take this pain no more

What this cancer has in store
Even doctors can't deny
When you leave please close the door

No more treatments to explore
All that's left now is to die
I can't take this pain no more

Though it hurts me to the core
This will be my last goodbye
When you leave please close the door

I'll know peace forever more
So, my dear friend, don't you cry
When you leave please close the door
I can't take this pain no more

 



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I was inspired to write this after visiting a friend with terminal cancer. She said she can no longer take the pain. She just wants to 'go to sleep,' she said, 'and have peace and no more pain'.

A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme: aba aba aba aba aba abaa.

The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order throughout the poem and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines).

Limited punctuation intentional.

'I can't take this pain no more' is a double negative. However, this is how my friend speaks.

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