Analysis of Bad news travels quickly



Some days are so hard.
Sleep does not come and life weighs heavily.
Reading about others' children makes me think
"What did my mother say when she got the news that I had
MS?" Was she happy my life was cut short?
Was she feeling guilty? We may never know.
I cannot talk to her about anything. For her it is
Always a lecture. Pointing her sharp finger in my chest like
She owns my body and soul.
I just hope she knows that I will die one day.
Walk into the fields of Gold and never come out.
I can take Jaxton's hand and we can go together.
Telling him how much his mom and dad love him.
The time you have left is your son's.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11111 1111011100 10011010111 11110111101111 1111011111 11101011101 11011001101011 10101001100111 1111001 11111111111 101011101011 111110111010 10111110111 01111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 611
Words 128
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 479
Words per stanza (avg) 127
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Submitted on August 24, 2014

Modified on March 24, 2023

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Rebecca Olsson

I started writing in 3rd grade when I got bored at school. I just never stopped. I have been a Journalist, a patient car coordinator, An Assistant Auctioneer at an Auction gallery that dealt in Russian Icons and other antiquities, I am a wife, a friend, a human being and I happen to have RRMS. Ask me what it is nicely and I might tell you. more…

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