Written for the contest Velox - A New Poem Type by Marcus Lucius Vasilios. Elias Lupin is credited as the creator of Velox. Eight lines rhyming  abacbcbb. Poem written in iambic pentameter.

This poem is a cut down and rewritten version of On The Sands, to meet the following criteria: Latin for rapid, a Velox is a poem that follows the rhyme scheme abacbcbb. You must follow that rhyme scheme and have exactly eight lines, making one stanza.