Paradox Of Loneliness Is Cause & Effect

E.S. Conway 1985 (United Kingdom)



I’m drowning in the open air,
I’m suffocating as I breath,
Feeling the burden of nothingness,
And in the nothing I believe.

Because you never looked my way,
Or acknowledged me at all.
I’m the girl who slipped through the cracks,
Who you never noticed fall.

I’m the girl left gasping breaths,
Two decades past your blindness.
I’m the girl drowning in life,
Because you never showed me kindness.

I’m the girl you broke then tarnished,
And had the gall to try to teach.
I’m the girl who sees your truth,
And the lies of which you preach

I’m the girl who nearly burned,
when they said it was all a game.
The one you freed and told not to tell,
Lest they come for me again.

So here I am, I’m drowning,
I’m the girl without a voice.
A junkie hooked on my broken past,
Of which I never had a choice.

Because you didn’t have the strength,
Or even the desire.
To do your job as you know you should,
When you see a child in a pyre.
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Scheme XXAX XBXB XAXA XCXC XXXX XDXD XEXE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 918
Words 180
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

E.S. Conway

A poet by proxy of therapy. Her works (with only a couple of exceptions) are comprised of poems written in a form of therapy diary, they served for several years as an aid to dealing with situations that may or may not be within the poems themselves. This is also the reason for so much rhyming; though not necessary for poetry, it was part of what made poetry therapeutic for her and so is an almost certain constant. more…

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