The Mimic by Rhya Moffitt

The Mimic

by Rhya Moffitt

Should I die before I wake, 1

My head not bloody, nor unbowed 2

No kingdom by the sea will I find myself 3

And remember how life was a mere paragraph, 4

With death now an exclamation. 4

I once said I had time for nothing, 5

But the endeavor of balancing myself upon a broken world 5

Maybe I should have just balanced myself 6

Through the days where there was water, water everywhere 6

And all of my boards did shrink. 6

And no verse of mine did stand 7

There was no kingdom by the sea 3

And I ponder yet weak and weary 8

Still I have no more fight

To rage against the dying of the light. 9

1. Children’s bedtime prayer

2. William Henley–Invictus

3. Edgar Allen Poe–Annabelle Lee

4. e.e. cummings–since feeling is first

5. Amy Lowell–September, 1918

6. Samuel Coleridge–Rime of the Ancient Mariner

7. William Shakespeare–Sonnet 60

8. Edgar Allen Poe–The Raven

9. Dylan Thomas–Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night