Analysis of Cries of Survival
I am here.
Living my life amongst you all.
But I wouldn't really call it living more like surviving.
I fight this fight against my mind just so I can feel sane.
I've done therapy.
I've done meds.
I've tried positive thinking, reassurance, realizing and visualizing.
But my brain is scrambled.
I am in shambles of how I can't even win this fight against my own mentality,
I can't stand myself sometimes.
I've tried the conventional way, the unconventional way, but no way seems to be the best way.
So now I live a life of a stoner, but only really surviving off the stoner ways of life.
I don't know what I would do if I didn't have weed in my life.
You call me trouble stuck in your own bubble while you blind yourself to my struggles.
While some people live in high society, I live in low society, living with the oddities of my struggles in my beliefs, while you get to sit there and question my abilities.
Some of us with mental health issues that turned to worse things than weed,
I can't believe you have the audacity to say that it's our problem and make it illegal?
People say things should be free, but even the free will of a mental health patient isn't free, because their mentality is their worst enemy, they can't even get help to find their true identity.
I'm crying.
I'm begging.
We're pleading for help so we can stop fighting and start thriving,
Can you not hear the cries of us surviving?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 10110111 111010111011010 11110111111111 11100 111 11100100101000100 111110 1101011111011101110100 111101 11001001001001111111011 1111011010110100101010111 1111111111011011 11110101110111011110 111010101001101010010101001110010111111101010100 1111101101111111 1101110010011111010011010 10111111100111010110101011010011110011101111110100 110 110 110111111100110 11110111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,410 |
Words | 283 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,095 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 262 |
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Written on May 08, 2022
Submitted by Percyholman11 on July 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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