Analysis of A life lost
Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)
All the juice has run out of this life
The fire went out
The meaning is gone and the purpose run dry
I see no reason to keep going
Other than perhaps to keep my family from suffering my loss
I want to leave this earth so badly
I can't find the will to do anything
Nothing is exciting or entertaining anymore
There is nothing I find pleasure in
For years, coffee was pleasure
Starbucks gave me a purpose
Now, it's gambling
But even that hurts, especially when I lose, which is often
If I left, would my family miss me? Would I miss them? Would my soul continue on? Would I be reborn? Would I find solace in the afterlife?
I don't know what to do. I don't know who I am. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know where to go. I can't find pleasure or purpose in anything anymore, other than to not die so my family wouldn't have to suffer. That's the only thing worth living for.
My friends have all abandoned me, or I've abandoned them.
God, if you're there, if you're real, tell me why I'm here. Because I don't really want to be around anymore. I just want to go home. I just want to crawl back into the womb of existence, like I was never born.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111111 01011 01011001011 111101110 10101111100110011 111111110 111011110 101010101001 111011100 1110110 111010 11100 110110101111110 11111100111111111010111111111100010 1111111111111111110111111111101100100110111111100101110101011101 11110101110101 111111111111011110111010111111111111101011010111101 |
Characters | 1,168 |
Words | 248 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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