this is my attempt at a sestine. i know some things seem repetitive but i actually did the last stanza first. ...it's actually a quote from the book The Candlestone by Bryan Davis. That's where the title comes from. Billy and Bonnie don't really have anything to do with the poem but i couldn't think of a title.
I can see nothing past the red
Screen before my eyes. No longer black and white
But scarlet and black. A crimson darkness
Never to be pierced by the light.
It’s hard to have faith
In something that’s nowhere in sight.
Tears have dimmed my sight.
It’s hard to believe my emotions can’t be read
On my heart. Like a white
Sheet of paper, clean and untouched by darkness,
I want to be brought into the light
But I don’t know where to put my faith.
I no longer have faith
That spring is in sight
A burning red
Flame consumes my heart as I stare at a sheet of white.
As I watch the darkness
Settle, I long for daylight.
My eyes ache for light.
How can I have faith
When I no longer have any sight?
How can I hide these crimson red
Stains when I possess nothing pure white
To cover up my darkness?
Where can I hide from darkness
In my own soul? Is there no light
That can pierce my faithless
Heart and help me regain my sight?
Can no one take this blood red heart and make it white?
I know you can make me whiter
Than the bitter cold darkness
I live in. you are the light
That can return faith
To those who have lost their sight
Of your blood flowing red.
Red will be made white.
Darkness will be made light.
Faith will be made sight.
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Good job! Sestinas are very difficult, aren't they? But you did well using enjambment and some variations on the end-words. Check the punctuation in stanza three. And see how many repetitions besides the end-words you can delete -- such as "crimson red."
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