Your Answer
Your friends would have viciously gossiped and jeered,
your parents have shouted: "No way, how bizarre!
What does he live on, to be sick he appeared?
Hands off, this odd fish is as old as we are."
I wanted the best for you, therefore I feared
declaring my love would have gone much too far.
Dispel nagging doubts now, so please let me know:
Your answer would certainly have been a no?
September 09, 2022
OTTAVA RIMA Poetry Contest
sponsored by L. Milton Hankins
8 lines, 11 syllables per line
rhyming pattern: abababcc
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