Will everything fade when my breaths cease?
Will my ashes scatter with the breeze?
Mirthful moments lived, memories made…
When my breaths cease will everything fade?

Will my journey be forgotten once my words stop?
Like mist will I mingle with the clouds atop?
Will flowers bloom in the paths I’ve trodden,
Once my words stop will my journey be forgotten?

I hope my footprints linger alongside the verses I’ve penned,
And my stories are rejoiced after my end,
As I count my days in my lonely winter,
Alongside the verses I’ve penned, I hope my footprints linger.

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𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲 : 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗽 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
The Swap Quatrain was created by Lorraine M. Kanter.

Within the Swap Quatrain each stanza in the poem must be a quatrain (four lines) where the first line is reversed in the fourth line. In addition, line 2 must rhyme with line 1, and line 3 must rhyme with line 4 and so on, BUT not repeat the same rhyming pattern on subsequent stanzas.

Rhyming pattern: AABB, CCDD, and so on.

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