Running
alicia shinall 2007 (cartersville)
Running away... I’d be, often…
away from what I couldn't face
or shouldn't know, time and again
though some things time would not erase...
the emptiness, aloneness, pain.
I seemed so carefree often when
on track or football field I'd chase
opponents down... where I had fun
running away.
The 60's was a grand Amen
in church for me, where I'd embrace
a future ministry, to gain
perspective, by God's wondrous grace
forgiving grief from which I'd been
running away.
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Submitted by 23301 on February 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | abcbd cbaE cbdbxE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 80 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 6 |
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