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Overcoming yourself before tomorrow

Jesse Joseph

Haiku
A beautiful butterfly,

on its last flight.

Please do not shed a tear,

As it approaches the light.

All its life it had to fight,

Facing one by one its fear.

Its biggest one was in the mirror,

The reflection of no one near….

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Submitted by silwy_jesse on July 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme X A X A A B X B
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 231
Words 58
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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