coping not coping

Arlene 1977 (Indiana)



drinking away the pain
the bottle my only friend
suffering in vain
waiting for this slow end

always feeling alone
drowning in the rain
sinking like a stone
my life a bloody stain

I cant breathe anymore
i just want to go back to before
coping not coping
no hope left

life slips away each day
and i don't even care
nothing left to make me stay
pain is to much to bare

on a path to self destruction
a train going off the rails
my life a malfunction
its time for me to bail

i can't breathe anymore
i just want to go back to before
coping not coping
no hope left

About this poem

trying to come to terms of losing something very dear to you is pure agony

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Written on November 07, 2023

Submitted by arlenem.41744 on November 07, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme abab caca dDEF ghgh ixix dDEF
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 563
Words 119
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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