An Awakening
Love is an action
minimized by a word
not justified by its meaning.
physical relief from entering in - was fun...is fun
but the wreckage caused by shallow entanglement
selfish at heart
self-centered from the start
an aftermath of mangled lives, twin towers sort
learned growing up
graveyard produced children and ghosts from the past
were first haunting
unaware my origin was the same
rising from a coffin, climbing through dirt
blind man seeing
learning from hurt
best phrased by Ralph Ellison:
"the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead".
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Submitted on August 21, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AXB AXCCXX XBX DBDAX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 529 |
Words | 93 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 3, 5 |
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