"Trading Shots"
As I continuously trade shots,
With my ego,
I hit myself over and over.
Loving myself is difficult,
While trauma tends to haunt me,
At every single corner.
It tends to be grueling,
These emotions I have.
They are formidable foes.
Challenging me at every corner,
To keep calm and stay cool.
It is hard to forget anything.
Even my strongest memories,
Are trauma-induced.
I am already going through therapy...
But it isn't enough.
They still haunt my every movement;
Like a fox on the prowl, they attack;
Certainly, it seems forgetting is not
Easy for some of us.
Some of us have the memory
Of a steel-trap door.
About this poem
Depression poetry!
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Written on February 12, 2023
Submitted by EtherealHydri on March 05, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAXBA CXXAX CXXBX XXXX BX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 132 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 5, 4, 2 |
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