Forget me

Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)



Life has run so meaninglessly dry

The long expanse of time and space

Death seems like a miraculous event

It's the train I want to ride to the end of the cosmos

Why are you all so happy? How can you be? Don't you see what's happening around you?

I want to go home

It's time to go home
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Submitted by kbdallas2020 on January 15, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X X X A A
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 290
Words 66
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Kelley Davies

Sometimes I wish I knew what was going on. But then I have to let go and let things be as they are. more…

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