In Silence
You are the mirror
And I stand naked.
Can a man absolutely be true to the self ?
You are utterances,
voices surfy and offshore deep in the sea.
With unspoken words of the distant blues
in conversation with the threads of silence i look for the shadow
lost and muted.
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Submitted on October 06, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 50 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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