The Diary

The Diary




A diary. All that remains
of dreams held in a young girl's heart.
The rest was washed away as rains
sundered the mountainside apart.

Her silent longings on the ground;
a diary. All that remains
are tears of loss by those who found
the tattered pages cloaked in stains.

A childish scrawl of joys and pains,
of teenage hopes that rose and sank.
A diary. All that remains
as fate leaves final pages blank.

The pages flutter in the air;
they dance to the wind's waning strains
in benediction, like a prayer.
A diary. All that remains.

An entry for Round 63 of "Invalid Item" 
Prompt: Image
Form: Quatern ~ sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not have to be iambic or follow a set rhyme scheme.

sunder ~ to separate; part; divide; sever