Estrangement



Walls between us walls around us
Who built the walls that surround us
I don’t remember when they rose
I asked around…nobody knows

Did I speak so badly after all
That you stacked my words into a wall
And were you perhaps too quick to build
Leaving  dreams unfulfilled

I remember when there was only space
room to grow…room to race
though we were  family all the time
with valleys to cross and mountains to climb

Now I can hardly see you at all
But I recall the sound of building walls
Walls between us walls surround us
I guess we built these walls around us
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Submitted by Snodeel on July 03, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF CXAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 549
Words 106
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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