Solace in Solitude
Man is a social animal-
One can’t exist as an island,
But I am just that,an island and my survival;
Isn’t a melodrama to keep me from becoming moribund.
Years of jadedness accruing-
Inside my bones brittle with boredom,
Like baneful magic done because it’s something of a thing,
In San Francisco where clam chowder is all that is wholesome.
Perhaps it’s all those years I spent-
Shuttling between my study room and the public library,
Wonder where the days of yore went-
As though University of Hard Knocks handed me out a bursary.
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Written on July 26, 2023
Submitted by Soulofdivya on July 25, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 539 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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