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FOUND

LizaBella Stephenson 1957 (Harlingen)

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Found
by LizaBella Stephenson

I was born into an inordinary world
Chaos reigned and I stumbled
Through the wreckage
Of emotions and acts
Which had been so carelessly discarded
By those who were older and wiser
I accepted each eventuality
As though it were normality
A routine of barren nonexistence
Sufferance and alienation
I learned to be
Benumbed by life's blue devils
And I learned to survive
Fighting and gouging for what
I knew should be
Opening into growth
Ripening into acceptance
Mellowing into love
And in the process ... I found me
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Aftermath of child abuse...

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Written on October 03, 1957

Submitted by practicingzen on August 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XA XXXBXXCCBACXXXCXXXCXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 554
Words 98
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 21
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