You Were There

You Were There was written about the idea of a protector, a father figure modeled after my own father. Such a person is able to hold all the horrors of the night at bay for no reason other than their love.


   There are three stanzas of nineteen lines each. There is a similarity to the meter and rhyme between stanzas but, other than the last four lines of each, no regimented structure has been imposed.


   The structure of three stanzas has been broken up into three chapter breaks, but each stanza has had its lines split-apart in order to preserve the intent (the pacing) of each line, and thus each line may be given its own page; there may be instances, however, where managing the evolution of the poem in your mind, some lines have been split into multiple pages, or, multiple lines of a stanza remain on the same page (making it so a chapter is not necessarily equal to the count of lines of a stanza).