Analysis of The Trap of Rejection…
Kari Michele Chrichlow 1983 (NY)
It’s such a pretty sight
How it’s happened all my life
Formed my beauty, thoughts, intellect,
My compassion for others,
Super heightened sensitivity & empathy…
Passion for food for comfort
A need to defend myself bc
Nobody else would…
The argumentativeness boiling over,
Like hot molten lava
Bubbling with a deep core rage
Masked in unbearable pain…
Not understanding why I don’t
Fit in anywhere
Not knowing I was Chosen
Before I was formed in the womb
See people have placed me in a tomb,
In their mind, in kind
No matter how kind I was,
In hindsight…
But the Holy Spirit gave me revelation
And direction
And guidance
And began to heal me,
When I surrendered to His Will
For my life
With tears slippin’ as I pen this,
I try not to trip over my isolation,
Of the earthly sort…
Reflecting back on who I once was -
Where they left me at and
Want me to stay at,
Yet are infuriated at my transformation,
I know it wasn’t by my might or power
But the by Almighty, who pulled me thru
Higher & Higher onto
My Purpose
And Calling
And Destiny
Over my Life
So as I denounce this spirit of rejection
Over me,
I take hold & authority over it,
By the power & the blood of Jesus Christ
My Lord & Savior who Strengthens me
While I’m still slaying it,
I’m praying & fasting to remove it
For good
For once and for all
To Break its Chains,
So it doesn’t gain the next generation,
Within my beloved daughter, amen.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 1110111 1110110 1010110 10100100100 1011110 0110111 111 011010 111010 10010111 1001001 1010111 1010 1101110 01111001 110111001 01101 1101111 01 10101011010 0010 010 001111 11010111 111 1111111 11111101010 10101 010111111 111110 11111 11010011010 1111111110 1010101111 101010 110 010 0100 1011 111011101010 101 1110100101 1010011101 11101101 111101 110101011 11 11011 1111 111101010 011011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,432 |
| Words | 291 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 |
| Lines Amount | 52 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
About this poem
I wrote this around 2 am after Thanksgiving, after reflecting on the lack of relationships of various kinds, in my life all evening & feeling down about it. I heard within, “write about it,” but didn’t act upon it until hours later in the quiet of the night. It was actually quite therapeutic for me & I'm so glad I was able to “vent” a lil, so to speak.
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Written on November 25, 2022
Submitted by babbina on November 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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