Eight-line Poems

The Road Goes Ever On

The Road Goes Ever On

Mostly dead is slightly alive
and where there’s life, there’s hope,
even when we fail to thrive
toward recovery we grope,
spirit refusing to lie down,
the slightest spark can blaze again,
in deepest dark the light may drown
but ahead we sense the dawn.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 10.30.22
Prompt: Mostly dead is slightly alive.