Analysis of Window Pain
Mirrors don’t always show the me
I would like to see
They don’t cut off the few bad decisions
Which led me to where I’m “meant to be”
But this?
The rattle of the trailer
The strange cushioning beneath my feet?
These aren’t things I’m proud of
It’s just in the pursuit of beauty
That doesn’t make it right though
It makes me sad
The alarm doesn’t wash away the pain
Nor does the hundreds of shots
They’ll search meticulously
One perfect smirk
One ideal size
At some point this has to stop
It’s threatening lives
The alarm reminds me again of the time
And I look at who I’d like to be
Not a blessing but a curse is beauty
Forced to fit ideals
Splayed across TV
Sexualized
Idealized
Tears come to My eyes
Imagining this…
Atrophy
Wasting away for fame
In good times, mere points
In some bigger game
A giant game of monopoly
Whoever has all the beautiful people
Has all the money
I am sorry and I want to free you
But the padding isn’t for my fall
It’s for you should you lose your ground in reality
I want nothing more than to be your padding
Someone to help you
Someone who sees
But mirrors don’t show perfect people
And it’s not through a mirror
Which you look back at me
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 11111 1111011010 111111111 11 0101010 011000111 1101111 110001110 111111 1111 001110101 1101011 1101000 1011 1011 1111111 11001 00101101101 011111111 1010101110 11101 10111 1 010 11111 01001 100 100111 01111 01101 010110100 01011010010 11010 1110011111 10101111 11111111010 11101111110 1111 111 110110110 0111010 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,206 |
Words | 229 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 43 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 923 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 226 |
About this poem
I feel strangely about how famous people are portrayed and the fans who would do anything to be in their presence. I wrote this because I wouldn’t want to know the famous people because I feel like that’s their last desire, they would instead prefer to be treated normally. But what is normal in a world of smoke and mirrors? Thank you for reading, enjoy.
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