All I Ever Wanted



All I Ever Wanted

Words like violence
 Break through the silence

 whips, chains & blood
 What is truth ?

 columns of cement alabaster vestibules
 to run in the distance,

 a path at the opening of a forest
 to bask in the vast expanse of the day

 chosen to bow the knee to pray
 along the path a dark figure rises

 eyes with spots having holes in the side of head
 a shallow pool is inside the walkways abode

 I pause my head to think
 Can't even wink to dismiss this earthly bliss

 with a time well spent in thought
 a bridge elapsed through the mirage of the moment

 dark creatures manifest their heightened madness
 I moved away to see another face

 that of a maiden in waiting for her lover which was me
 yet all I ever wanted was the truth to behold

 onto another moment or that of episode
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Submitted by hitalot on July 19, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A BB AX BB XC CX XD XX XX XX XX D
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 782
Words 150
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1

Mario William Vitale

Mario William Vitale is a twentieth century poet. He has developed a style of free verse. Has written over one thousand poems. more…

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