A Ranting
Why can’t you just listen?
Why can’t you just pause?
I hurt and I want to explode.
There’s nobody else here.
I’ve come just to you
To rant and release this hard load.
But you have your Gospel
And hurt once or twice
And think that you now have the cure.
This challenge is ugly
I burn in its fire,
A fire that you say makes me pure.
Don’t be smugly certain
It all goes away.
Look down…see my guts on the floor.
I wanted compassion.
I wanted a friend.
Not platitudes heard oft’ before.
But now comes a new thing
Do I see some tears
That trickle and moisten the cheek?
Yes, just what I needed
A listening heart
Who knows what it’s like to be weak.
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Written on April 27, 2015
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 27, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on April 27, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBXXBXXC XXCAXDAXD XXEXXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 148 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 6 |
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