Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXXIX
"When the Great Library burned, the last 10,000 years of stories were reduced to ash. But those stories never really perished. They became a new story - the story of the fire itself. A man's urge to take a thing of beauty and... strike the match." - Dr. Robert Ford, HBO's Westworld. Write a story about rebirth, destruction, or whatever this quote inspires.
Rebirth Shakespearean Sonnet
A peach clothed in the gaud of life and spring
Its downy skin glistened with beads of dew.
What better image for the fleeting zing
Of youth, and its pressed hope for life anew?
A peach which holds within itself the tree
And hundred more like peaches too. Alas,
Within its flesh and seed does death tarry.
For sacrifice is want for life to pass
From one to one and keep the scales aright.
This I know and contemplate it often.
Whilst searching fruits or viewing birds in flight
This I know and say with soul unsoftened
To our precious child that you left me
With eyes like yours and skin bright and downy.