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My Back To The Light

Kurt Philip Behm

All of my life,
 I’ve been trying to hide
Drifting untethered
 roaming inside

All of my life,
 I have chosen to wait
Judging unholy
 making mistakes

All of my life,
 my arms have been short
The reach much too long
 as failure reports

All of my life,
 the truth insecure
My back to the light
  —the present unsure

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2014)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 28, 2018

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Scheme Abbb Axxx Axxx Axxx x
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 338
Words 62
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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