Still I fall
Issha S Bose 2009 (Ernakulam)
I saw you,
Saw you again,
And then my eyes
never left you.
I thought of you,
Thought of you again,
And you never ever
Left my mind since.
You are like a disease
That will be the end of me
And I know
That it’s too late,
Like the moment you’ve realized
You’ve swum too far out
In the ocean
Like running over the edge of a knife
To see if it will hurt
But still I fall.
My breath is dwindling,
The last thread from the woof
Of my body
And still I fall.
Because even if you’re what kills me
You are also
What cures me.
About this poem
This poem is a brief description of the way a person falls so hard for someone they know they shouldn't. It describes the angst of forbidden feelings, yet also the gold rush when you look at the person.
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Written on September 23, 2023
Submitted by issha on September 23, 2023
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Scheme | ABCAABDEFGHIJKLMNOPQGOGHG |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 126 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
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