Husk
Like desert birds circling
bones picked-clean, you
keep hanging around here
like I’ve got something to offer.
Let me tell you, I’m all out of magic.
You bled me dry and though
I love you, I can no longer
be in love with you.
I’ve only enough embers
to keep myself warm these days.
A shriveled husk, the remnants
of a past flame are what
I am to you now.
I can be nothing more.
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Written on 2018
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXB XXBA XXXXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 384 |
Words | 82 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
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