Analysis of Heartbreaker

Kenya Stephens 1995 (Van Wert)



Do you know what it's like?
To go to our old familiar places and have flashbacks play in my mind like an old romance movie?
Except our ending wasn't so happy was it?

Do you ever get those "How are you and- doing?"
I wonder how you respond.
I'm forever dreading that question.
My once warm bright smile fades as I reply "We don't talk anymore."

Do you touch a certain part of your body and feel my fingernails tracing it?
How do you sleep at night?
I bet it takes you five seconds before you're into a deep dream.

Me?
I lay there in the dark silence for what seems an eternity.
But wait,
You're here!
I hear you laugh. See that welcoming grin.
You crawl into bed next to me and begin to play with my hair.
This feels like a dream but it can't be!
You're here!

I begin to lean in for a kiss when suddenly my eyes fly open.
You're gone.
I cling to my pillow and let out a small muffled cry.
Just like you did in my dream, you left without a simple "Goodbye."

Why?
Why did you leave me?
I loved you beyond the world, the stars.
I put you above everyone,
even myself.

Do you know how much hell I went through?
I try so hard to hate everyone but always seem to fall for them.
It doesn't matter though because they do the same things you did.
They make me feel special enough to open my legs and then they ghost me.
Like I never mattered.
Like I never even existed.

It's ok.
I'll never get an apology; I don't need one.
I need to learn to love myself.
To put me first!
I matter God damn it!
You don't see it but one day I will.
I will.


Scheme xab xxcx bxx aaxDxxaD cxee eaxcf xxxaxx xcfxbgg
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 111111 1111010101001110111110110 0110101011011 111011111010 1101101 101010110 111111110111101 1110101111001110101 111111 1111111001101011 1 1110011011110100 11 11 1111111001 1101111100111111 111011111 11 101110101110011110 11 11111001101101 111101111010101 1 11111 111010101 1110110 101 111111111 111111101111111 110101011101111 111110011101101111 111010 111010010 111 1101101001111 1111111 1111 110111 111111111 11
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,542
Words 357
Sentences 39
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 3, 8, 4, 5, 6, 7
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 144
Words per stanza (avg) 39

About this poem

This piece was written back in 2016.I had an old someone that treated me like I was nothing after I gave him my world and then some. It was a very dark and twisted time that I no longer have to deal with. I can proudly and in all caps say, I MATTER! And so do you! Never let someone treat you this way. Please.

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Written on December 16, 2016

Submitted by kenya_s on February 24, 2022

Modified by kenya_s on February 24, 2022

1:50 min read
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