Eight-line Poems

Serenity

Serenity

In the quiet aftermath of emotion,
when all the shouting has died down,
exhaustion cools the heated soul,
vision shrinks to true perspective,
and common sense resumes its reign.

Truth is not intense or wild;
it waits impassive, patient
for the dawn.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 10.10.21
Prompt: Aftermath.