Thank you, Anni. Maybe I'm a masochist because I do like making things difficult for myself. I considered rhyming each line as well, but that was a bridge too far. Perhaps next time...
From the turbulence of life,
history lays down its strata,
sheets of sediment compacted,
containing all that was and
leaving us the lessons of the past.
We can read through the ages
for truth or, head in the clouds,
wish for time to stop.
Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 01.25.23
Prompts: Turbulence, sediment.
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