I Pledge to You

A Quatrain Chain written for Week 21 for Poetic Explorations.


Love is patient, love is kind,
         you've heard the pundits say,
But I have found that I am blind,
         I let love slip away.

I had you once, we two were whole,
         And still I failed to see.
I let my pride break down my soul,
         and plans God had for me.

But know this now I pledge to you,
         my pure, undying love.
I seek naught else but to be true
         assured by Him above.


Author's Notes:
A Quatrain is a poem consisting of four lines of verse with a specific rhyming scheme. 

The poem above consists of a chain of three stanzas with a rhyming pattern of abab, cdcd, efef, and includes an iambic meter using eight and six syllables on alternating lines.