Man in the mirror
Always said I would be better than I was raised to see,
None of the men in my life were the man I wanted to be,
When I now look in the mirror they are the men staring back at me,
Why has life left me empty and so alone,
How is the pain more than any I have ever known,
Love ones we need the most have all passed and now gone,
When all we've done is cause others pain,
We have only lived up to that man's name,
Our lives turning out like it has no one but selves we can blame,
And the man in the mirror we've become one and the same,
About this poem
Growing up in a domestic environment I never wanted to be like that in any way I thought I could do something that would help me not become the man who was the quick temperatured and abusive one that I knew.
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Written on March 14, 2024
Submitted by rob467959 on May 09, 2024
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| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 534 |
| Words | 127 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 4 |
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