Shadows of death
When the sun goes down ,
and there is no light,
I see shadows in the night.
And when they move I
hold my breath,
because they bring me visions of death.
Not of dieing , but of
what's to be ,
and how much death really means to me .
I try to scare the shadows away , but they always return
the very next day.
And so their visions I accept,
and deep down inside my fears are kept ,.
Awaiting the day no shadows I'll see,
For that is when dead I'll be ..
About this poem
I wrote this years ago when I was in a darker place ......
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Written on November 11, 1984
Submitted by philalullo134 on February 19, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 108 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2 |
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