Eight-line Poems 2

Gentle Strength

Gentle Strength

Physically the strength is gone,
my world restricted to those few yards
I call my range,
my pace decayed to plod.

But the will survives,
exhaustion insufficient yet
to lay all down
and die.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 02.10.26
Prompt: Write a poem about gentle strength.