Analysis of Obsessed

Amanda East 1976 (Ogden)



F@!k you!
F@!k you!
And
F@!k you!

Those are words of anger,
And I am angry!
Angry that I must feel it.
Sad that I must feel empty of light.
Empty of compassion,
And empty of purpose,
But only for a moment,
Only for a little moment.

You chose me, remember?
It is your hope, not mine you wrestle with.
The fire and intense pain made me look away,
But only for a moment.
You wanted me to come to you.
So here I am.
What now?
Are we always going to try to teach each other something?
We are not different you and I.
Our time doesn’t have to be short.

Are you going to keep being a coward,
A weak nothing of a man?
Did you go to the party you paid for?
What do you want from me?
You have seen me,
Smelled me,
And now feel me.
Where is your Hate?

What is Love?
Have you never met something real outside yourself?
I am going to keep surprising you, you know.
I know the answer,
But you won’t have it
Because winning is more important to you than being right.
And they are not the same thing Mister.
You lie to yourself as much as the rest of us do.
You are here in the quagmire too.
And You are afraid of getting everything you deeply wanted.
I am here.
You only have to ask me,
Broken One.
The answer comes in a gift.
A gift!

She bled you dry and made you mad.
You let her, just as I let you.
You don’t understand the steps to my madness
Because you forgot how to feel outside your pain.
You are saving no one, dear,
And it’s not your rite to play the devil.
You won’t give me mine for a Goddamn second!
She’s lovely isn’t she?
And it makes you that much more angry doesn’t it?
To actually get what you want?
This one comes knowing, but pretending to not know.
Her Ego actually loves you.
A gift she asked to give.

F@!k you,
F@!k you,
And
F@!k you!


Scheme AABA cdefghIi cxxIaxxxxx xxxddddx xxjcefcaaxxdgkk xahxxxbdexjax AABA
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111 0 111 111110 01110 1011111 111111011 101010 010110 1101010 10101010 111010 1111111101 010001111101 1101010 11011111 1111 11 11110111111010 111100101 10111111 11101110010 0110101 1111010111 111111 1111 11 0111 1111 111 111011011101 111011010111 11010 11111 011011010111101 011101110 1110111101111 11100101 011011101011010 111 1101111 101 0101001 01 11110111 11011111 1101011110 011011111111 1110111 0111111010 1111110110 11011 01111111011 11001111 111101010111 01010011 011111 111 111 0 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,812
Words 424
Sentences 51
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 8, 10, 8, 15, 13, 4
Lines Amount 62
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 186
Words per stanza (avg) 51

About this poem

Me losing touch with reality. I wrote this in a delusional state of mind to a guy I met on a dating site. I thought he was someone he was not. Yes, I scared him away.

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Written on June 18, 2017

Submitted by Oceanloveisland on November 16, 2022

Modified by Oceanloveisland on November 16, 2022

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Amanda East

I grew up in Utah. I have four kiddos. I am now in a healthy happy relationship. I am spiritual, but not religious. I love thinking deeply about the purpose of life. more…

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