Eight-line Poems

Zorba

Zorba

To wake every morning
to a brand new day,
to be without mourning
over things passed away,
to see in old friends
the best and the true,
is to live in the end
just how God meant you to.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 12.10.22
Prompt: “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” – Nikos Kazantzakis (author of Zorba the Greek).