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Poetry
Hive Avenue Literary Journal
Scheherazade
John Beck
It was her path
must live on together to see
to survival. She saw
the dawning of the new day.
the power of stories,
In time, she ensured him
how each may shine
a long life, replete with tales
in its time, incomplete,
that spanned sleep’s shade.
bridging the dangerous divide
We too have learned
between night and day.
this lesson. We tease out
Scheherazade saved her
our lives, turning o昀昀
own life by teasing
the light before book’s end.
out her stories,
To leave the tale’s end
starting a new tale
for the next day
when one ended,
is to seek immortality.
making sure
I’ll leave this chapter
the cli昀昀hanger
undone, marked and closed,
ensured her fate,
the last page unturned.
seeing another morning.
If I chance to die
Once caught, her king
in this night, please
lived from dawn to dawn,
leave me in the dark,
entranced, eager for each
never tell me
new Arabian night.
how it ends.
He grew to love her, lived
for her stories, each new
one ending with no end,
only the promise of resolution
on the morrow. He spared
her life as she gave
him life, new possibilities
of wonder, cunning and intrigue,
magic and impossible tasks.
He decreed that both of them
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