Crescent
once I was a waning crescent, pale and thin—incomplete
a silver sliver of light peeking unwanted in between the
folds of the velvet, midnight sky
and now, having gazed at my sun from a world away, I
am whole—I am full and complete—grand designs,
imperfections, craters—making me no less whole
when you are near it is not you that completes me,
but rather you who illuminates the parts of me I
thought were lost forever
the paradox that you both do and do not complete me
brings me as much comfort as the sun’s warm rays
on my cheeks and the moon’s cool gaze on my back.
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Written on 2020
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXA AXX BAX BXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 112 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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