Bitter Tears

My first, and only, constanza

Bitter tears from bitter eyes fall
in a puddle upon the floor,
pain lingers from the time before.

His voice she hears from down the hall,
forces her soul to cringe, then numb.
Her only choice is to succumb.

She stumbles and begins to crawl
across the floor where her tears fell;
seeking redemption from this hell.

Memories hanging on the wall
left to torture and haunt her mind;
dark visions of a past unkind.

Left alone with no hope at all
just remnants of moral decay;
prepared not to live through the day.

The Constanza form consists of five or more 3-line stanzas. Each line has a set meter of eight syllables. The first lines of all the stanzas can be read successively as an independent poem, with the rest of the poem weaved in to express a deeper meaning. The first lines convey a theme written in monorhyme, while the second and third lines of each stanza rhyme together.

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