Just Mortal
Jade Smit 2008 (Cape Town)
Shame on me for being mortal,
this hopeless love is just awful
The universe you live in,
I don't exist there
The dimension you breath in,
I can't breath there
Pull me through a portal.
Shame on me for being mortal.
My body senses your love
You make me feel higher than the clouds above.
Every inch of you, made of stardust
A world with a population of two...
I'm hoping it's just us.
I'd cry a lake and drown,
I'd kiss your face while you frown,
I'd love you to death as if my body was 6 feet down.
Love is the feeling,
Heart break is the sound,
This hopeless love is just... Awful.
Shame on me for being mortal.
-Jade Smit
About this poem
Loving someone so different to you that you start to lose your humanity and fall out of touch with the world around you.
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Written on November 11, 2023
Submitted by iamjadee08 on November 11, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 628 |
| Words | 143 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 5, 6, 1 |
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