There’s No Power Like Home
We were sick of home,
Home sick.
That mask around our ear
Hung itself into the year.
Once we stepped into our home,
We found ourselves gasping, tear-
ing it off like a bandage,
Like something that gauzed
The great gape of our mouth.
Even faceless, a smile can still
Scale up our cheeks,
Bone by bone,
Our eyes crinkling
Delicately as rice paper
At some equally fragile beauty-
The warbling blues of a dog,
A squirrel venturing close,
The lilt of a beloved's joke.
Our mask is no veil, but a view.
What are we, if not what we see in another.
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Submitted on June 20, 2023
Modified by acronimous on June 26, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDAEFGHIJKBLGMNOPL |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 122 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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