The Other



What black is to white
What dark is to light
What day is to night
A world that loves pairs

A wordless haiku
Or paint with no hue
A sky with no blue
They're in need of each other

You are the one
And I am the other
No worthwhile story
Has only one lover

About this poem

I wrote this for person who is special to me. The idea behind it being that there cannot be a love story without a pair. The world is made up of pairs that we simply cannot separate. As alone – they are incomplete.

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Written on November 01, 2022

Submitted by A_Mellowed_Mind on January 28, 2023

Modified on March 21, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAAX BBBC XCXC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 253
Words 57
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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