Analysis of The Silent Passion Of Creation
On the first day of my death
I closed my eyes
and saw time explode in silence.
Shivers of knowledge blew
through my electric storm of thought,
an emotion so strong shook
the foundation of eternity
while passion floated beside me
and weaved its delicate fingers of creation.
I opened my eyes and time had been rewound.
Darkness dominated while whispers
of imagination descended
upon the essence that was me.
The darkness changed subtly
and I found that my dark soul
was creating a new era,
or maybe it was the same one
I'd left behind when my flesh had torn
and the deep red wine of my life
spilled upon the dirty slabs of stone,
I chose to withdraw my highest card.
On the second day of my death
I let forth a sigh filled with passion
and light did dance before my solitary senses.
Fear saturated me; had I been praying
to myself all through my meagre life?
My own personal gateway to dreams had opened
and I could create with the power
I had longed for all through my life.
Dust motes became new worlds;
I watched them cool as the tears
in my mind fell upon a new Eden.
I created a new body for myself
and hovererd over the oceans my tears had formed.
My reflection stared back at me in wonder
and I smiled; the fear is released into the air.
Clouds of thought assembled an army
to rain down my death so final
which formed a new life to crawl
from my sorrow and walk.
My new earth I proudly surveyed,
memory served me right and I frowned,
my highest card was not withdrawn.
On the third day of my death
I watched in patience as the heavens
collided with my ego and caused mutations
to creep into my paranoia.
A red sea brought forth black fish
which swapped fins for legs and gills for lungs
that would inhale my death chant.
Sorry sights did invade my time
which passed me by in jest;
a mock salute hiding a vicious curse.
Figures distorted fought
on my ever growing paradise
which was slowly turning sour
as I realised that playing God
was not an easy task,
my silent passion began to weep.
My body new began to fade
into insignificance as the life
I had created abandoned me
for fresher gods to worship.
I watched them mature
and strangle my world, theirs now,
I had created an Eden, Hell I called it now.
I had wasted my highest card.
On the fourth day of my death
I awoke to find myself alone
in a cold sweat-drenched bed
made up of broken dreams
and half forgotten memories.
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Metre | 1011111 1111 01101010 101101 11010111 1010111 001010100 11010011 011100101010 1101101111 10100110 10010010 01010111 0101100 0111111 10100110 11011011 110111111 00111111 101010111 111011101 10101111 111011110 011101110010 1100111110 1111111 11100111110 011011010 11111111 110111 1111101 0111010110 1010011011 01100101111 10101111010 011011010101 111010110 11111110 1101111 111001 11111001 100111011 11011101 1011111 110101010 010111001010 11011010 0111111 111110111 1101111 10110111 111101 0101100101 100101 11101010 11101010 1111101 111101 110100111 11010111 010100101 110100101 1101110 11101 0101111 1101011011111 11101101 1011111 10111101 001111 111101 01010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,310 |
Words | 452 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 21, 22, 24, 5 |
Lines Amount | 72 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on August 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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