Exert

EXERT

-verb

1. to use (influence, authority, etc) forcefully or effectively

2. to apply (oneself) diligently; make a strenuous effort

I worry at time

That he might

Exert himself

Over too much

And sprain a sigh

Hamartia

HAMARTIA

-noun

literature . the flaw in character which leads to the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy

Its face was too interesting

And it loved nothing so much

As showing it off constantly

This hamartia cost it its head

Collected as décor for a palace

Foursquare

FOURSQUARE

-adj.
1. Firm; unyielding.
2. Frank; forthright.
3. Square in shape.
-adv.
4.In a firm or forthright manner.

Foursquare

They declare

Honey theft

A most unlawful

Behaviour

But that a gift

Could be parted with

For a consideration

Accretion

ACCRETION

-noun

1. any gradual increase in size, as through growth or external addition

2. something added, especially extraneously, to cause growth or an increase in size

3. the growing together of normally separate plant or animal parts

4. pathology .

a. abnormal union or growing together of parts; adhesion

b. a mass of foreign matter collected in a cavity

5. law . an increase in the share of a beneficiary in an estate, as when a co-beneficiary fails to take his share

6. astronomy . the process in which matter under the influence of gravity is attracted to and increases the mass of a celestial body.

7. geology . the process in which a continent is enlarged by the tectonic movement and deformation of the earth's crust

With age I rust

But in decay

Fail to flitter away.

Like a tree

I can read the years’ accretion

Around my body

I

The rusted tree…

Erase

ERASE

-verb

1. to obliterate or rub out (something written, typed, etc.)

2. (trans.) to destroy all traces of; remove completely

3. to remove (a recording) from (magnetic tape)

4. (trans.) computing  to replace (data) on a storage device with characters representing an absence of data

Time

Erasing paintings from the wall

Leaving but a few traces

Of washed out art

And memory

Phantom

PHANTOM

-noun

1. an apparition or spectre.

2. an appearance or illusion without material substance, as a dream image, mirage, or optical illusion.

3. a person or thing of merely illusory power, status, efficacy, etc.

4. an illustration, part of which is given a transparent effect so as to permit representation of details otherwise hidden from view, as the inner workings of a mechanical device.

-adj.

5. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a phantom; illusory.

6. Electricity . noting or pertaining to a phantom circuit.

7. named, included, or recorded but non-existent; fictitious.

 

 

It stood transfixedWaiting for a fate of some sort
Too scared to call its parents
A feathery phantom 
In the making.