Re-Birth

 Author's Note: This poem is part of an assignment I completed for book club. We were to imitate Robert Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by writing a poem with a similar format. Each line had to have six syllables, and the first half was to be about something awful, something the opposite of nature and innocence.The second half was to be about things getting better. I chose to write the first half of my poem about how death can be hard to understand and cope with.It expresses how we isolate ourselves from the people we love. The second half shows that time moves on, things get better, and love helps us heal. Death of a loved one cannot keep us from living a full life; death cannot keep us apart.


Original Poem 
Nature's first green is gold

Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay. 


 My Poem
Death’s final strike is pain                                          
His wrath is hard to drain                    
His flame becomes a fire;     
Everyone’s a liar.                                      
Then time begins to fade.
New memories are made,
So love will mend the heart,
We will not grow apart