Thursday September 23rd, 2021

The exercise:

Write about: a banishment.

2 comments:

Greg said...

There seems to be a hidden theme behind your prompts again, but it's hard to pick out what you're talking about. I know Trudeau got re-elected, so it's probably not national politics -- local ones, perhaps?

Banishment
Basement dweller,
Active only at night now,
Not by choice, not by desire.
Invisible except in the list of things that go missing.
Steps in the darkness, measured,
Heard around the house.
Moans, groans and sighs as from a bored teenager
Echoing along the hall and in the kitchen.
No reprieve to be granted,
Time served to be discounted.

Marc said...

Greg - not sure, sadly. It's been too long since I came up with this one to remember where it came from.

Spotted the acrostic right away, due to the length. But then forgot about it halfway through because it flows so naturally. Really nice work here.