Promptly Poetry Challenge 2022-23

Driven apart [Week 3 entry]

Driven apart


Cried
inside
the yellow
hide, my taxi
dashing to and fro, no good place to go.
I could not cheer my love so dear - oh, woe!
My heart in twain,
I remain
in pain -
torn.

Prompt / Form Note ▶︎

Prompt: Picture of taxis & streetcar receding on European street.
Form Note: A tetractys poem consists of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, & 10 syllables. They can be written with more than one verse, but must follow suit with an inverted syllable count (10, 4, 3, 2, 1).