Time of the year

They say that the pain goes away
I guess I will wait one more day
Happiness can come if it may
I think it’ll stay, I think it’ll stay

This time of the year is the worst
I stay with my lips tightly pursed
As if no way to quench my thirst
It’s not the first, it’s not the first

©2023 CBialczak

The monotetra is a poetic form developed by Michael Walker. Here are the basic rules:

• Comprised of quatrains (four-line stanzas) in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a total of 8 syllables per line
• Each quatrain consists of mono-rhymed lines (so each line in the first stanza has the same type of rhyme, as does each line in the second stanza, etc.)
• The final line of each stanza repeats the same four syllables
• This poem can be as short as one quatrain and as long as a poet wishes