This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2022 challenge and will be revised.
PAD Prompt: Hero / Villain
Poetic Form: Cadralore
"Life in a Moment"
1. He doesn’t understand why he hates
the boy. He knows it’s wrong, yet
his hands burn with a fire flamed
by everyone at school who feeds his ego
that is physically beat down when he gets home
2. He stands in the April snow, decades from their
last kiss. Broken from the loss of his life,
he has wandered to her door, unsure of what
happens next. He knocks and knocks. She
can’t answer because she has a new name.
3. She hears his voice, like a cyclone circling
across the coast line ruining a family
vacation. A game she learned on the driveway
with his love, that now storms through
her skills to win a medal and his approval.
4. She rages against a love that she never felt before.
The burning from the glass releases the gates
of remorse. Another two count goes down
in one motion. She lets the bar hold her up
as she dances to a song she doesn’t like.
5. Every choice we have now is because of the
choices we made. We follow our hearts one time,
then choose what our minds think the next.
Our fantasies mix with reality until we don’t know
if we are the villain or the hero of the moment.
