My race



To well meaning voices and mockers alike
Who scream to my heart "give chase"
For this truth I implore, do brace.

Your alarm clocks of me misplace
For the flower which calls my body its vase
Will not be hurried to bloom.

My truth as prickly as a rose
From shame I have retraced to embrace
Reputation and Opinions, I command you Displace!
And give way and room for grace!

For you see, this is my space
With a destiny assured within this trace.
So relax, I pray...
This is my race, to run at my pace.

- laulindah
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Submitted by #thehundredth on August 20, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAA AAX XAAA AAXA XX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 519
Words 101
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 4, 4, 2

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