Poems from the 12-Hour Couplets Contest: Being, Jeffrey Rensch

 Jeffrey Rensch has been writing poetry for 50 years.  He is not a big fan of free verse.

Being

I was the master, no, not really that,

the servant of something, I don’t know what,

my fate?   I didn’t really have a fate

to speak of or was ignorant of it,

I mean, I couldn’t really lose my way

without some way to sense the destiny

I didn’t have, and this was more than loss,

more like a robbery, I felt furious

at… someone but I couldn’t figure out

a single enemy to single out,

for what was maybe my own clumsy doing,

not to have even the remotest being. 

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