When you walked along

Life was better when you walked along.
The bright days were a little more cheery,
the dark nights were never so long,
even the cynical world was less dreary.

The demons of sympathy never danced around,
life was better when you walked along.
Now when you are in heaven, nowhere to be found,
every offer of friendship looks distorted and wrong.

A sinking notion that I have nowhere to belong
hounds my mind, shatters my false calm.
Life was better when you walked along,
there never was a fear of this maelstrom.

I used to think I was resilient like a cactus.
But, without you, I do not feel so strong;
even the smallest joy seems disastrous.
Life was better when you walked along.


Written in Empat Empat Form


The Empat Empat form has four (empat) lines comprised of two rhyming couplets.
A couplet is two lines.
With two rhyming couplets the first line must rhyme with the third and the second line must rhyme with the fourth.
There are only four (empat) stanzas.

There is repetition in this form: the first line in the first stanza is the second in the second stanza, the third in the third stanza and the fourth in the fourth stanza.

This results in a form like this; capital A symbolises the repeating line, matching letters symbolise rhyme:
Stanza 1: A. b. a. b.

Stanza 2: c. A. c. a.

Stanza 3: a. d. A. d.

Stanza 4: e. a. e. A.