How I Live Well
How I Live Well
I know not to be unwell
after days of farewell
to ailing.
I learnt not to wake up unwell
and go to bed at night unwell
I make my bed so well
and sleep well.
I relate well with well-wishers
who wish me well
and enemies who wish me unwell
I laugh all
the time with friends and enemies
without a fall foul of my joyful
moments
without any group’s grapple
For a whole
year-round, decades as well;
an uninterrupted bliss lays my bed,
and I sleep well
to wake up, at dawn, well
About this poem
The poem is a piece of advice to a friend who was sinking into depression when she was experiencing challenges in her organization, thinking the whole world was against her.
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Written on September 10, 2023
Submitted by charliegreat on September 10, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 497 |
| Words | 109 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
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