Mental Sediment



Melancholic smile, pensive language, pathetic posture,
Egregious thoughts, nihilistic; self-inflicted rapture,
Nonchalantly spewing poison towards fragile, weak minds,
Treacherous self-deception, psyche strangled in tight binds,
Antithesis the man; opposite, existentialism,
Laden with troubles, burdened; tunnel-visioned pragmatism.

Serenity, a rarity in this deep, bleak cavern,
Entrapped; imprisoned, a shoddy, flickering lantern,
Disgusted by self confinement, thoughts harden; sediment,
In his life, calloused by resentment, not one compliment,
Myopic was his attitude; lacking forward-thinking,
Entropy, a rapid spiral towards disorder; drinking,
No longer shall his aching pain prevail, drowned himself numb,
Towards blacking out he strives, before so, a depressed hum.

About this poem

This poem is an acrostic fourteener (fourteen lines with 14 syllables).

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Written on August 27, 2023

Submitted by frevffndkr on August 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCC DDXXEECC
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 778
Words 113
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 8

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