Tension
We all live for the tension of the moment
The pause before the kiss, the climb before the summit
But each of us has an eternal tension, deeply rooted and silent
The love unspoken, The dream never started, the dormant rage
We live as if they don’t exist, and that makes them gnaw even more
Soon we are hollow, nothing but a mask
Never realizing these things are weak and fragile, able to be banished by a single word
But instead we are eaten alive killed by our own minds
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Submitted on August 21, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABACDEFG |
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 465 |
Words | 90 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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