When he died,
Oh, I tried
To decide

What came next —
So perplexed.
The subtext

Of my grief,
My belief,
Brought relief

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This is my submission for the W3 Challenge this week:

• Theme: The bittersweet, painful, or unsettling aspects of the past and its hold on the present;
  • Optional Challenge: Use imagery of shadows, cracks, or reflections to add depth to the theme;
• Form: A “square” (e.g., 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, or any other pattern you choose);
  • “Rows” represent stanzas;
  • “Columns” represent the number of lines in each stanza;
    • For example: 3×3 = 3 stanzas of 3 lines each; and 4×4 = 4 stanzas of 4 lines each.

The idea of a “square” poem intrigued me. I wrote 3 stanzas of 3 lines each. I went a step further, though, and made each line 3 syllables — does that make it a cube?