Eight-line Poems

Twang

Twang

Is the present really tense?
It depends upon what’s past
and all the times that we lacked sense,
whenever our fate we cast.

Thus we end up tautly strung,
like ghee-tars over-tuned,
another notch, an added rung,
and so our future’s ruined.


Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 07.07.23
Prompt: Write a tense poem.