These Thoughts

Vernon Peterman 1995 (Shawnee)



F*ck it, It's worthless,
Everybodys not what they seem on the surface,
I'm struggling in life but not chasing my purpose,
&& Being okay with that is what makes me nervous,
I'm lost and controlled every day by my past,
Feeling like every time I start to do good I CRASH,
Now I'm screaming F*CK LOVE cause that shit don't ever last,
It don't come quick but it disappears so fast,
My nose is red like Rudolph && my feet hurt like I'm Prancer,
Just to find out all along that drugs were not the answer,
But I still run back when I need to ease some pain because they help me through the struggle but they keep me in the game!!

About this poem

I wrote this in prison in 2016

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Written on July 18, 2016

Submitted by slipperscount21 on September 18, 2023

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Scheme AAAABCBBDDE
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 622
Words 132
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11

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