Analysis of Drowning



Plummeting down to hell

I feel lost in a sea of nothingness

Nothing I write is healing

Nothing I think makes any sense

I want to die

I don't know who I am anymore

I don't know if I've ever known

I feel like a child in a man's body

The world is so overwhelming and ugly

I almost pray this is the dark night of the soul the mystics talk about

At least then my life would have meaning

But I doubt I'm that lucky

I think this is more of a chemical imbalance or disease of the mind, affliction of the spirit of some sort

I've run out of energy, happiness, strength

And joy is a distant memory I can hardly recall

I'm not creative anymore. Just miserable.

I wish people would smile at me like they used to

Now they look at me like a man with a sickness

Or a curious guy who shouldn't be bothered

Even though I'm desperate for contact from someone outside of my head

I wish someone could come stop this pain, reach down and remove the leach from my heart and the nails from my spine

I pray to Jesus, this someone I never used to believe in

Because faith seems to be the last option I have

No one thinks about me anymore

I've become an invisible enigma that no one cares about

It makes me sad and want to cry

When did I fall this far and how long did it take to reach these depths of sorrow and despair?

Is it just a spiritual passage?

I used to believe I was a spiritual man having a spiritual experience

Now I don't know if that's true anymore

I doubt my thoughts and question every positive thought I have about myself

Is it true?

As if I had those anymore.

This is a burden which can't be undone. There is no remedy for this pain. I wish God could take it all away, but I doubt even He would or could do it

Please pray for me, whoever is reading this

Please just say a small prayer for me that I make it through this day

I want to believe I'll be ok, but I'm so lost.


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Poetic Form
Metre 100111 1110011100 1011110 10111101 1111 11111101 11111101 1110100110 0111010010 11111011101010101 111111110 1111110 11111101000101011010101010111 11111001001 01101010011101 110100111000 111011111111 111111011010 101001110110 101110111111111 111111111100101111001111 111101111011010 011111011011 11101101 10110100010111101 11110111 1111110111111111110001 1110100010 111011101000110010000100 111111101 1111010100100111011 111 1111101 110101110111110011111111110111110111111 11110101101 111011111111111 1110111111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,908
Words 424
Sentences 10
Stanzas 37
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 39
Words per stanza (avg) 10

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Please pray for me

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Submitted by kbdallas2020 on October 18, 2023

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Kelley Davies

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