A promise.
I promise you.
I PROMISE.
I shall see you again.
Not in “another life”.
Not in a non-sensical way.
We shall meet and embrace,
and hug slightly too hard -
so that when we depart
there is still that feeling of closeness,
through our battered bones
and salted faces.
I promise you.
I PROMISE.
That in art,
and poetry,
and music,
and thought,
that we all are raised beyond what we ought.
I promise you.
I PROMISE.
That I will always tell the truth,
as I always have.
I am broken.
I am sad.
But I am not dead.
Because of your hands.
About this poem
Colours colliding. Black, Orange, Green. Love always surviving. TRUTH - the only reprieve.
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Submitted by Sleekwood on May 16, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A x x x xxbxxx A bxxcc A xx xx x x |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 145 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 6, 1, 5, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1 |
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