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Endecha Poem

Endecha Poem

I have lost so many
Friends I have loved have died.
lost my parents and sister.
NRA says guns don't kill people; they lied.


Mother had dementia
She could not remember me
When I last saw her, felt sad.
I was there when she died, saw her soul going flee.


I was there at the endgame.
Watching her mind set free.
said goodbye to mother.
In the end, I realized this is what had to be.

The Endecha is a poem of Medieval Spanish Jewish origin, intended to express grief or sorrow. The stanza structure is four lines with 7, 7, 7, 11 syllables and a rhyme scheme of xaxa, where x is unrhymed, as described and demonstrated in the following links:


https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1017-endecha/

The elements of the Endecha are:
1. stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
2. syllabic, written with 7-7-7-11 syllables per line.
3. rhymed, rhyme scheme xaxa xbxb etc., x being unrhymed. The rhyme is often consonance only, but true rhyme may be used.