wb :

I was bored one day, and so decided to write an alliterative sonnet.
There were two versions of the last line, and I couldn't decide on which to use.
Additionally, I vote that September should be the Month of the Sonnet. XD
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learn to love the cruel lash of fate,
the slithering snake whose wounds will not abate;
the scars which smoulder still upon your skin,
the lance that lodges in your life within.

learn contentment, to your soul deny
the foolish thought that you might fate defy;
the flame of hope that favour falls with you;
the cold that winter brings you life anew.

yet;

learn to hate the hour of your death,
the winds that wail and whimper your last breath;
the wire that wraps upon your broken neck;
the highest hell that ‘waits the heretick.

so learn to live and laugh and life enjoy;
or dead and dying you yourself deny.
//or death and dying to yourself deny.

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