Chasm
Standing on tip toes,
Placing a foot on the bridge,
Above all my woes,
'Til the death march blended,
And the skeletons are beneath,
The tiles breaks, and I landed,
Down on the bottom,
On the pit,
Grave writ,
On the pit,
Down the chasm.
See the vines,
Down the mines,
See the hands,
Down the land,
They are on you,
They're chasing you,
All the way into the chasm.
The fall is not long,
That's what I say,
There's nothing wrong,
That's what I say,
It's all false,
False in the eyes of the lost,
Lost deep in the chasm.
I'm okay,
The dark won't creep behind me,
I'm fine,
The torches in the cavern,
They give way to paths to see,
But what are they to me?
About this poem
This poem is about the feeling of anxiety in a situation, that we tell ourselves that it'll be alright, even though we're yrembling and sweating as we hold onto our bets.
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Written on July 19, 2023
Submitted on January 14, 2024
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Scheme | axabxbc DdDc eexxffc gHgHxxc hixxii |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 163 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 4, 7, 7, 6 |
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