Moral High Ground
I don't have a moral high ground anymore.
And I've realized that expectations always let you down.
I don't need a thing to be just perfect anymore.
Spent so much time looking into eyes to find that nothing's there.
So, I don't search for perfect anymore.
And I don't expect another to see the good in me.
Seen the chaos in too many souls to even know what good could mean.
All I know is that that one small word has never set me free.
All I know is that that one small word has been the death of me.
The more I live the more I see the synchronicity,
in the desire to be good and the fear of being seen.
About this poem
This poem dives into the idea of "being good" vs. being who you are intrinsically and letting go of expectations of yourself and others.
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Written on January 02, 2022
Submitted by alid.26887 on December 27, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 134 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 2 |
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