hope
I've heard it said,
'very ill people are vulnerable to hope',
and I could see the luminescent membrane
stretching between you and your pain,
and I could nearly taste the texture of
black and brackish blood smeared across your cracked, dry lips
so I believe it.
Will you free all, speak of the unsecret?
That twisting, dark and silent grip
while grains like sand and deepest dark pour in through the corners
clogging up your ears and nose and mouth,
turning weave and sweat into an early earthy gate.
Should you not it matters
naught, for all your effort lies in vain vanishing depth-
that heavy weighing, the lightest lack of breath,
as when you are scarcely breathing for fear of disappointment
a signing off in tears for debt.
You are the sickest of the sick
the least of these and every other plucked, skinned, unprepared
foul and fear and wanting loathing,
optimist.
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Submitted on September 13, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 153 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 5, 5, 4 |
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