Analysis of Bipolar: Bridging the Poles



Bipolar: bridging the poles

East and west,
North and south.
Up and down,
right and left.
Peak of the mountain,
Depth of the valley.
Width of the river,
Narrow of the alley.
Day and night,
Darkness and light.
Weak and strong,
Right and wrong.

Position, perspective, vantage point,
Providing its possessor with deft and adroit.
The view from above, the gaze from bellow,
Snow peaked mountains, lushes meadows.
The darkness of night, giving rise to the light,
Turning a plight, making it right.
The weak one calls out, grabbing hold of the strong,
Bridging the gap, removing the trap.
East bonds with west, north touches south,
A synergized world, synchronized.
So was intended, so was the plan,
Opposites combine, to flourish and shine.
For hot to feel cold, for young to grow old,
For flowers to whither, warm bodies to shiver.
Complimenting each other, a master symphony,
Poetry in motion, seamlessly.
From a conductor almighty, infinite and complete,
Creating a world, a universe replete.
A lack less existence, filled to the brim,
With all the ingredients, singing a hymn.

Then He made me, torn apart at the seem,
Two halves of a coin, unable to join.
Severed and split, into sections of two,
Unable to see which one is true.
A duality of parts, a language apart, unable to link, unable to speak.
Two parts of one whole, an unbridgeable gap, causing each one alone the feeling of trapped.
Shackled and bound, splintered at birth,
Not from a twin, a child or kin,
But from the self battered from within.
The hope of cohesion, the dream of the bond,
Shattered and scattered, from the very start.
My north and my south, my up and my dawn,
My right and my left, my smile my frown.
A muddled existence, a cacophonous blend,
Incoherent, disjointed, unable to mold.
Like the cows that where skinny in pharaoh’s dream,
Like the cold of the winter, undoing summer’s heat.
Two poles misaligned, unable to meet,
Pulling further apart, with every heartbeat.

Is it I who is absent, is it I who is cursed,
Lacking the potion, lacking the burst.
Is it I who is blemished, disfigured and wrecked, missing the element, failing the test.
Is it I who is defective, disfigured and scarred,  
Dispensable, unworthy, ready to discard.
Have I been overlooked, possessing no synergy,
Unbalanced, uneven, a chemical deficiency.
How have I been created, from a being like You,
So exalted, all powerful, unable to skew.
Like the world all around me, do I not represent,
A creature reflecting balance and strength.
Do I represent, the dregs and the dross,
Made of debris, cheap without cost.
Do I correspond, to a lab experiment,
Testing and mixing, leftover ingredient.

Perhaps it is this, the painting that’s me,
Not a Rembrandt, Monet that’s easy to see.
Perhaps my distortions, my lack of symmetry,
Are more like a Picasso, contrived  quite deliberately.
Perhaps the uncanny, the unlikelihood that is me,
Indicates but one option, one conclusion you see.
That I am rooted quite deeply, in the creator’s intent,
Certainly not just the result of random select.
It is precisely the schism, the chasm that’s me,
Undoing my blindfold, allowing me to see.
I am not the remnants, the chaff in the breeze,
Nor am I the product, of serendipity.
No, indeed I am chiseled with precision and care,
By the sculptor’s intention, by the hewers device.
Backing up a few steps, looking in from without,
The landscape unfolds, removing all doubt.


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Poetic Form
Metre 0101001 101 101 101 101 11010 11010 11010 101010 101 1001 101 101 010010101 010101011001 0110101110 111011 01011101101 10011011 01111101101 100101001 11111101 01110 110101101 1001011001 1111111111 110110110110 100110010100 100010100 10010010100001 0100101001 0110101101 11001001001 1111101101 1110101011 1001011011 010111111 0010011010010101101011 1111111110110101011 10011011 11010111 110110101 01101001101 1001010101 1101111011 110111111 010010011 001001001011 10111100101 1011010010101 11101011 10100111001 1111110111111 100101001 1111110010011001001001 1111101001001 010001010101 111100101100 01001001000100 1111010101011 1010110001011 101101111101 0100101001 110101001 11011011 11011010100 10010100100 0111101011 1010111011 011010111100 111001001101000 01001001111 101110101011 111101100001001 1001100111001 1101001001011 01011010111 11101001001 11101010100 1011110101001 101001010101 101011100101 010101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 3,495
Words 674
Sentences 43
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 12, 20, 19, 15, 16
Lines Amount 83
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 443
Words per stanza (avg) 98

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A poem describing the struggles of living with bipolar disorder and a perspective that can help alleviate the pain.

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Written on November 05, 2023

Submitted by Menachemwilhelm on November 29, 2023

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