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modified villanelle form

Back then I saw the sun rise every day.
Its light didn’t reach me stuck in shadow,
It mocked me and left me to waste away.

But then i saw no sun for many days.
I...

I wrote this sonnet after a conversation with someone I care about. I haven't fully explained to him that this is how I feel yet, but soon I will have to.

Of course I want to believe we can last...

That's great, thank you. Also you're spot on with the interpretation. The option life intends is just endings, but I was afraid that line confused the fact that the poem is about the 2 options I...

I was afraid maybe it wasn't clear. I'm bias because I know what it's about. Is there anything I should do to make it more understandable?

It is savoir, it's like the end is what saves the good memories. And I'm her, he wants to try, but I think that might end up worse.

I wrote this after a conversation with someone I care about. Come next year we will both be leaving and I don't know what I want.

Of course I want to believe we can last
But time makes certain...

interesting and somber. The last lines remind me of Robert Frost's Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I...

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;
When I...

"With death so near, Mother must have felt like someone on the brink of freedom, ready to start life all over again. No one, no one in the world had any right to weep for her. And I, too, felt ready...