I Wish I Could Write Poetry
I wish I could write poetry.
I wish I could write poetry so that I could explain the way your smile feels like sunlight
After spending a year underground
I wish I could write poetry so that I could describe how your laughter makes me feel like I’m drowning while breaking the surface at the same time
I wish I could write poetry so that I could express how I am always cold
But when you touch me, all of the ice melts away,
Reminding me that summer always returns
I wish I could write poetry so that I could define all of the reasons I want to stay by your side for the rest of my life
In any way you will let me
I wish I could write poetry so that I could tell you that you are my soulmate without ever having to say those words
Because I am a coward.
And I am not a poet.
But I love you.
And if I could,
I would write you poem after poem
Telling you all of the ways I love you
And all of the reasons I don’t think I could live without you
And all of the reasons I don’t want to
I wish I could write poetry so that you could know the way I feel
But I can’t
So instead I just smile at you and I hold your hand and I hope that it is enough
I wish I could write poetry
So that I could write it for you
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Submitted by oskaret1215 on February 01, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A xx x xxx xa x x x b xxbbb xx x Ab |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,219 |
Words | 275 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 2, 1, 2 |
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