We have recently just begun our unit on poetry, in both French and English. This first assignment was given after reading multiple different poems and the last being focused on the phrase, "I shall not live in vain". Thus our teacher assigned us to write a short poem using the phrase or something very similar to it. The only set criteria, apart form the usage of that particular phrase, was that the poem needed to finish with the phrase. Below is what I have written.
While today ends,
While today ends,
It brings us tomorrow.
Today is tomorrow.
It is a fresh face.
One which has not yet been tainted,
With many memories and mistakes.
One which we must live, create,
And experience its’ exhilarating and extraordinary things.
One which we must believe and fight for,
So that they may
have a future or even a present.
Thus one must not live nor die in vain.
That they might not live nor die in vain.
That I might not live nor die in vain,
Today, tomorrow, not ever.
I shall not live nor die in vain.
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