Ashes



You were so beautiful
I was so small
I lost myself
Somewhere in you radiance
So much that
I thought I was
A part of it
An atom
Some crucial componant.
I was not.
You left,
And I
Like ashes
Remained.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHEIJKLM
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 185
Words 41
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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