Analysis of Unspoken
Lets talk now
about the unspoken subject.
The facts I hide
even from myself
somewhere in my memory,
someplace that is often inaccessible,
among the anger
I don't allow myself to feel.
My thoughts on the subject?
That is another thing
I don't allow myself to feel.
They are buried with the child-self,
and I don't talk with her
as often anymore.
If I talked to her lately
she would denounce
my false exterior,
claiming the carefree woman
a sham.
And I would crumble with the myth.
It is quite difficult
keeping her silent.
Her protests are
barely inaudible,
and borders the consciousness.
Sometimes she peers out
in my eyes
through tears,
but only late at night
when there are no witnesses;
no one to know my weakness,
my pain of sinful silence.
Maybe that is why
I am marked,
so that anyone who might know me
will discover
I'm not pure.
I was a child;
a child takes what love
she can get,
no matter how wrong.
It is not only strangers
who tempt with candy.
Strangers are not trusted,
nor anymore is family.
I will never be guilty
of pure trust again.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 01001001 0111 1011 101100 111100100 01010 1101111 111001 110101 1101111 11101011 011110 11001 1111010 1101 110100 100110 01 01110101 111100 10010 011 100100 0100100 01111 011 11 110111 1111100 1111110 1111010 10111 111 11101111 1010 111 1101 01111 111 11011 1111010 11110 101110 1011100 1110110 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,005 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 37, 10 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 413 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
About this poem
Trigger warning: abuse Published in Free From Monsters: Poetry by Survivors of Abuse. Western Oregon University Printing.2019
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