Wish and Necessity
There is no wish to move on,
No necessity to know, feel, breathe:
The life energy broken, accurst, gone,
With Time no ties to inter wreathe.
There is no more that verve and power
Left for flowing in vision of eyes,
No brilliance attach'd to any hour
Of life, or blues and blacks of skies.
No necessity of dignity of present, past;
No wish for senses mad in sensations,
Or beating thrill for ages last
Or that unsaid, only felt relations -
No wish, no necessity by obligations bound,
Only death and woe in me are found.
About this poem
It is a poem of my utter desparation and grief. It celebrates my sadness and finds a natural course of exhausting my sorrow. I realised that writing poetry has a definite therapeutic effect.
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Written on March 07, 2022
Submitted by js2541 on August 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | XAXABCBCDEDE FF |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 519 |
| Words | 107 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 2 |
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