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Awake

Melissa Durance

For far too long
Too many nights
Tortured by thoughts
Too many mornings
Asking myself
Is this REAL life?
No longer shall I be pacified
By a mundane existence
I choose passion
I choose spontaneity
I choose to LIVE
I seek knowledge
I seek adventure
I seek LOVE, REAL LOVE
With an open mind
With a strong but wounded heart
I step forward into my future
No plan
I throw caution to the wind
Today and every day moving forward
I wake up and say to myself
This IS REAL life
This IS my REAL life
And I am ready
To LIVE it
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Submitted on August 12, 2014

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPMQOREFFJS
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 489
Words 103
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
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