Pride's Fever
The sun is a scorpion neck-tie
A venom of heat blisters within;
Fingers scrap at dirt but it's dry
Vapor rises like apocalyptic sin.
/But you crawl anyway grub-like
Toward a lush mirage of oasis;
A few short feet to lucky-strike
And blessed relief is the basis. . .
/Of how we feel when a desert
Invades the space between us;
Leaving a sterile realm of hurt
On our stubbornly proud faces.
TBollinger
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Submitted on July 01, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 387 |
Words | 71 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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