scars and sadness
lanuma Thamsuhang 2004 (Kathmandu)
I kiss my scars
like they are my lover
I see a person who pulls me
from a dark place who
covers my skin
with their arms
wrapped around me
I feel safe
in the night
sleeping alone.
head up in the clouds
all my pain flourishes
into a flower
my sadness will never leave me
craves me up in
my emotions spread
like branches of a old tree
which looks dead.
my heart wrenching
my soul is drowning
in the ocean of melancholy
I try to lift my head up from the water
but all I can see is a ship falling
and people watching
they don't do nothing
they just keep talking
about my appearance
from outside
and make jokes about
what is killing me softly.
- Lanuma Thamsuhang
About this poem
it's about how everyone of us feel with our scars. some make us remember about our haunting past or the pain we carry throughout it.
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Written on May 02, 2021
Submitted by limbulanuma on December 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABXCXBXXX XXABCDBD EEBAEEEEXXXB E |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 681 |
Words | 154 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 8, 12, 1 |
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