Drifting
Reading your words
And words I said
Now echoes on
A frozen stream.
Try on the memories,
Everything meant (once real),
Laugh at me
Shadows on a lonely page...
How can happiness be
So cruel?
Subtle evil
Tearing lovers apart.
As so many words are broken,
The pieces are careen
More helpless
Against a darkening sky...
Where are the magic hands
I once held?
Where are the softening eyes
So pure?
Dreamed away on tales
Now discarded,
Wind blown ashes
From yesterday's fire.
To collapse and kiss
A soul goodbye.
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Submitted by Bro_33trumpet on August 06, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 113 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
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