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A sestina is a poem with the ending wording scheme of one-two-three-four-five-six

six-one-five-two-four-three

three-six-four-one-two-five

five-three-two-six-one-four

four-five-one-three-six-two

two-four-six-five-three-one

two-five
four-three
six-one




Enter a man pondering upon his own oblivion
He looks to the stars and the moon a glistening silver
Wondering on the chance of his life being a dream
He can’t help but enter a state of troubled mind
Where few may enter and leave with a calm
And looked as unmoved as a stone

He stares at the moon, perhaps the greatest stone
Having seen so many years without meeting oblivion
Yet remaining in a state of constant calm
Living only to shine down its enchanting silver
Allowing bards and poets to expand the mind
And creating in life a wondrous conscious dream

Still he has been haunted in many a dream
By thoughts that seem ,like law, set in stone
Can existence be proven, though intangible like the mind?
Or are we all nothing fated to the same oblivion?
Dreams may take place on the sky so silver
But the philosophic man may never meet his calm


Though in this lies a magnificent calm
One man thinking of his life as a dream
Without knowing his own life as a true silver
Perhaps not quite as tangible as the stone
Even the abstract reaches its oblivion
But nothing is nonexistent when taken through the mind

For all things great and small, when taken to the mind
Are able to be and find the calm
That only truly exists in their certain oblivion
And when broken down to only the dream
That all things’ existence may be seen plain as stone
Yet still remain a resilient silver

Finally, the persistent man to his true silver
Is able to find the vat of knowledge in his mind
Revealing the truth behind the resilient stone
And slowing his thoughts to a settling calm
Believing that reality is neither a truth nor a dream
But simply the type of path en route to oblivion

For when a thought is set in stone it creates a lifeless silver
And the daunting Oblivion comes easily with the accepting mind
but comes to a calm when met by the creative dream