On the verge
Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)
What if it collapses?
What if I break?
I'm falling, dying slowly
Ego torn to pieces
Bright sunshine on the edge of a heart holocaust
There is bleak, and then there is darkness
Dark sunrises
Black holes swallowing the whole moon
The imminent collapse of a society torn from the inside
Breaking from the inside
I wander aimlessly
Ponder endlessly
Contemplate my namelessness
I am a nothing, a nobody
But I am witnessing the end
Silently
Praying that final collapse just
Please
Doesn't
Happen
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Submitted by kbdallas2020 on February 22, 2024
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Scheme | A X B X X X X C C B A B X X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 514 |
Words | 111 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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