That Voice Inside
I once tried crossing over
a bridge that silence built
And for mile after mile
the quiet maimed and killed
My speech was dumb and dormant
as I bided all my time
In hope of passing through the cracks
the exit doors unrhymed
My life dead on arrival
till a voice inside decreed
To build a frame beneath that bridge
—and set my meaning free
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 10, 2019
Modified on March 12, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 381 |
Words | 69 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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