When The World Shifts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HHII| The ground beneath me bends and breaks | A |
| the past dissolves the present shakes | A |
| A mourning hum a shadowed song | B |
| for all the places I belonged | C |
| - | |
| Between two worlds I stand alone | D |
| one safe familiar carved in stone | D |
| the other vast uncertain skies | E |
| where every ending births surprise | E |
| - | |
| It s right to grieve to ache to yearn | F |
| to watch old fires fade and burn | F |
| Yet in the ashes seeds take root | G |
| new voices rise new truths recruit | G |
| - | |
| Change is a blade but also a key | H |
| unlocking parts unknown to me | H |
| Through pain through loss through shifting air | I |
| I find new strength already there | I |
Vanessa Dizon Alvarez
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