Pen/knife
For you,
I cut myself quite deeply,
far more
than I first had intended -
in the hope that as I healed
(black thoughts concealed)
that the flesh like in dreams,
would be drawn tight -
fixation concealed.
Forever together.
But we never connected.
No "self"
was
surrendered.
No carcass
revealed.
Just some livid lines
to remind both sides
that the mind
doesn't feel.
I wish that I'd told you.
I wish that I'd shown you.
How the blade
passed through flesh
into tendons.
A siren review.
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Submitted by Vencejo on May 05, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXXBCCXXC B XXX XC XXXX A A XXX A |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 491 |
Words | 109 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 1, 3, 2, 4, 1, 1, 3, 1 |
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