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Forever A Refuge For Lonely Souls
August 30, 2021
I was grand and filled with choirs of children;
Loved by priests and passing pilgrims.
But less and less came every day,
My breaking walls left to decay.
Then lost youth hid - trouble brewing;
Their smoking was to be my ruin.
Now mice hide in burnt out holes;
Forever a refuge for lonely souls.
© Neyla E., Montreal, Quebec
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I wrote this couplet for a school assignment; we had to write a poem inspired by Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay, with a symbol from The Outsiders as the main focus. I wrote from the perspective of the the old church that Ponyboy and Johnny hide in, and invented its history. I bent the rules of couplets slightly, which is why some of the endings aren't complete rhymes.