Analysis of Return of the Brain



Oh, satellite, satellite, where have you been?
Dish it out, fill me in
On what the plan was again (?)
Are they memories or dreams
from another time? Another life?
Or a thousand DNA strands ago?
Found that window hill portal
Oh so long ago
When I fell asleep
On my treehouse couch
A million billion dreams ago.
Even while I'm wide awake ...
Mistakes still are sour cake,
Yet, still no crumbs are ever left.
Overactive imagination,
I believe it was, you said.
You wrote it in red.
Where was I back when?
I loved far, far too much way, way back then.
Yet, my wanderful brain returned today.
And, yes, I know, that's debatable,
yet, inflatable as your proud, swollen chest.
Many many minds have we left behind.
Didn't mean to lose it.
Always wanted it back.
But, it ran away without me.
Turns out, afterall, we were kidnapped.
Well, I'm not a kid anymore
& that's likely why it's been
returned to me. Hmm.
Possibly.
And just like that!
Look what's under my hat!
Made ya look inside another book.
The hope sapped from us left no more
to quench my lonely thieving ghost
Just above the frozen floor.
Today is a day that's celebratory!
My wright brain somehow found its way
Back to me.
"We left you oh so long ago, yet never meant to.
Dontcha know?
We got lost somewhere
We'd never been &
Couldn't find our way back again."
Been gone so long,
I thought you'd gone forever.
Well ... You know what they say
'bout "Always" and "Never".
Yet, it sure as Hell felt that way.
Heat and thirst had kept me there
Without a bat to beat the bear.
Calling and calling ...
But, no reply.
I still don't know why.
How long
this time
this time I pray
Can you
Can you
Can you stay?
Hello?


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,662
Words 353
Sentences 41
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 62
Lines Amount 62
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 1,253
Words per stanza (avg) 315

About this poem

It's a bit of a celebration and liberation from a nasty bout of writer's block that lasted far too long

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Written on November 04, 2021

Submitted by borrontoe on July 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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