Chenqing 100

Although today is still March, next week is the first week of April, which is National Poetry Month here in the U.S. So, this week's prompt is two lines from "18 Verses Sung to a Tatar Reed Whistle" by Cai Yan, as translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung: "If I had consented to death / My bones would have been buried long ago."

You have until midnight your time on Friday, April 5, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple drabbles per entry. Please review the community rules for what drabble forms are allowed.

As a reminder, this community has no official presence elsewhere. You are encouraged to share the prompt on social media, if you so desire. It may take me a bit to create the AO3 collection, so please be patient.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and drop a link to the prompt suggestions post here. New suggestions are always, always welcome.