Even Prompter

Transition

Transition

To everyone there comes a point
where mere survival’s not enough,
when cost is greater than the prize
and journey meets its terminus,
the strength in grasping hand weakens,
aches to contemplate its rest,
is tempted by the proffered ease
beyond horizon, no longer far,
sees that lightened sky ahead,
while certainly the dying evening,
is also shot with rays of hope
exceeding all that fed this yearning,
and gripping fingers release their charge,
extending welcome to one’s death.


Line count: 14
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 9 2022
Prompt: Survival.