why I'm here?

howard bass 1970 (lubbock,texas)



why I'm here I do not know,
I feel like a fish in a very small bowl,
nowhere to run, nowhere to hide,
no one to love by my side,
I just want to fly, fly away,
maybe come back on a better day,
if I died would anyone care,
would their love for me disappear somewhere?
so many questions but no one to ask,
I just want to break this ugly glass,
so, for now I guess I'll go for the simple reason
I may never know........
WHY IM HERE?

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watching my daughters fish swim in a little bowl while my marriage was crashing

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Written on October 10, 2010

Submitted by bubbab.12104 on July 09, 2022

Modified by bubbab.12104 on July 09, 2022

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Scheme ABCCDDEEFGHAI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 428
Words 102
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

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