a lifetime spent searching in vain; 

for beauty in countless places,

in the lines of strangers' faces; 

twisted harshly with lines of pain... 

a lifetime bound in unseen chains; 

plaintive questions, mild innocence... 

hope twinkles in eyes limitless... 

the chains drag her soul above;

where her fate designs stairs to love, 

which she shall take, no penitence...

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©AmaliaAbbar16052019

The version of Decima, popular in Puerto Rico, is a 10-liner with 8 syllables per line in the rhyme pattern ABBAACCDDC.

P.S. If only... I didn't lose myself to occasional bouts of writer's block. And a disease called Writenonsensia.