6th January 2026

 

Christmas decorations

still covering the houses

littering school parents

© Rachel Green January 2026

On the Journey of the Protagonist

Thou writes again with but a shorter frame

of words within thy characters might dwell

and yet progress the plans of Death's new game

and figure out what skill thou can excel.

For relics of the past lead summer on

to the final winter of thy soul,

thy pity checked with need and duty never gone,

and endless infamy to be thy goal.

And though thou be protagonist in tale

in death thou be the villain of the piece

for there be few of women or of male

who desire thee to make their life surcease.

 But when at the end their do their maker meet,

 then they will learn how much of life was sweet.

 

© Rachel Green January 2026