Analysis of You can't change your past
Rewind my mind - I find my feet
Stepping nervously, into a younger me.
As memory slips on quantum time travel -
back to my centrifugal forced pinpoint,
I see the all the shades of a stupid mistake,
Colour blind decisions BLOCKING my path
Classic Movie memories scowling
at my grand design history lesson.
A much older man (myself) I find…
diving headlong into a timeline.
Buried madness crawls, gasping
from the bolted overgrown crypt.
I keep trying to fix this recycled vomit
toss of a coin glances shoot at the ghost
In the corner... whispering softly...
his lip service defence! evidence
Of his listed perspectives and alternative
specrums of what if’s… and why‘s?
In retrospect - I’d change it all,
to unravel this chain of events
that scrape at my sanity daily.
I try to force thoughts underground
until the lid uncorks itself
and the flood of bile spills its guts.
Mistakes are lessons of instruction!
To learn and enable us to fulfil and grow.
The hologram screams - “see it my way”
but I’m older now and too aware to “see it“.
from his unknowing view point - I’ve watched
The Preview to his life’s forthcoming attractions.
We have got to live together now!
WE CAN’T CHANGE OUR PAST.
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Metre | 10111111 10100010101 11001110110 11110011 110101101001 110101011 101010010 1110110010 01101111 10101010 1010110 1010011 111011101010 1101101101 001010010 111001100 111001000100 111101 0101111 101011101 111110010 1111110 01010101 00111111 011101010 11001011101 01011111 111010101111 110101111 01111110010 111110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,185 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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