Analysis of Missing You



Lying in my bed. Sheets warm beneath my thighs. Thoughts of yesterday’s gone by.

Unconscious desires pushed to the surface of my mind

As hands reached out to grasp thin air.

Cool wind blowing chilling my body, simmering darkness cascades into my open windows filling the room with memories of you, of me, of us locked in a loving embrace.

Legs twined, lips pressed together, body heated, sweating from our love.

My mind remembers, my body reacts, my noise smells your scent, my legs lift and closes around crumbled sheets, arms wrap around a tear stained pillow, beads of perspiration stain my forehead.... as I am missing you.


Scheme X X X X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 10011110111111011 1001011010111 11111111 11101011010010010111010100111001111111001001 11110101010101101 11010110011111111101001101110101110110101110111101
Characters 634
Words 117
Sentences 8
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 83
Words per line (avg) 18
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 18

About this poem

I wrote this poem a few months after my husband and I agreed to split up for a while. I thought it would be easy to do so but I was not prepared to miss him so much that it hurt to be without him and out of my missing him came the poem.

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Written on May 25, 2001

Submitted by Godtcis on January 31, 2024

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Patricia Iriebi

I grew up in the Bronx and my dad was an abusive alcoholic that caused our family a lot of pain. I began to write poems to express my pain and most of all my healing from the pain. I continue to live in the neighborhood where I grew up. My father is deceased by before he died he gave his life to God and he made peace with his family. more…

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