Why?



Why am I like this?
Am I programmed this way?
If so, then why?
Why do I keep encountering these unwelcome thoughts?
Why aren’t I plucky enough to truly say what I want to?
Why do I keep doing the opposite of what I am intended to do?
Why do I look the way I do?
Speak the way that I sound?
Why do I trip over my words?
Am I just meant not to speak?
Should I start staying quiet?
Should I live life without ever speaking a word again?
Then would I really be living?
Would I turn into a brainless being, like a jellyfish?
Yet why would I stay silent if I have so much to say?
Why would I sit and drown in a sea of my own words, if I can rise like I own the sea and expose the sea of those words that were never spoken to the world?
But then the question comes back,
Why?
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Written on March 03, 2022

Submitted on March 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEEEFGHIJKLBMNC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 776
Words 180
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18

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