The Tempest
I tried to save you but nearly drowned
The waves of your past crashed into me
Pulling me into rip tides of your suffering
With shipwrecks full of ghosts wanting company
I became one of the specters for awhile
Disappearing from my life and haunting yours
Forgetting I belonged to a world
Outside of the tempest
The eye of storm feels deceivingly safe
But the winds are stronger on the other side
And escaping their wrath is nearly impossible
You abandoned me after the hurricane
The stars tried to console me with the map to freedom
But I refused to look up
And focused on the wreckage
Thinking I was stranded in the middle of the ocean
I heard the mermaids sing
Their serenade resurrecting memories
That isolation and freedom live in the same realm
Maybe your were setting me free
After desperately treading water
I realized that I could swim
And I was closer to the shore than I realized
All I had to do was walk away from the storm
About this poem
Figuring it all out and learning from mistakes
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Written on July 07, 2023
Submitted by Kaytee on July 07, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABA XXXX XXXX XXXX BXXA XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 947 |
Words | 185 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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