Alive (pt1)
"You can't be alive,
unless you've died
But you can die
If you were once alive"
These words ring in my head
Time and time again
Ah yes!time,I envy it sometimes
It does not die either is it alive
But i had to die to be alive
It took me a long time to realise
That I needed to be revived
From a spiritual and emotional death
That tied the life I thought I had
I didn't mean to steal time
But I had to take time
To heal
I had to take time to breath
I had to take time to be alive
It seemed to be the only key
Options from my head flee
I couldn't be free
I tried to scream but noone was near
My screams noone could hear
And so with time I did plead
I had to die to be alive
It took me time to realise
That I needed to be revived
From a spiritual and emotional death
That tied the life I thought I had
About this poem
It is about a realisation that I had to die spiritually, mentally and emotionally in order for me to be alive ,and all this took time
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Written on September 21, 2022
Submitted by mzongwanathinama on September 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | axxaxxba abcDE ffxdag ggxxx abcDE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 811 |
Words | 185 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5, 6, 5, 5 |
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