Analysis of Why can't I love me?
I know I talk big, but oh if you knew how numb I really feel.
You'd wonder if I was a statue, or if I was ever even real.
There are times when feel that I can't do anything right.
Even holding myself up, some days takes all my might.
I know that I said that being numb would be a terrible way to be.
But on the days when I do feel, I hate these feelings inside of me.
The sadness inside of me dwells, the hate for myself continues to grow.
I try so hard to push back the depression, before it too begins to show!!!
My happiness is vanishing everywhere that I look inside of my brain.
I feel like I am nothing but evil, I just feel like I cause nothing but pain.
Why do I have to be so pathetic and weak, why can't I just find my strength?
Why can't I seem to help myself, for others I am willing to go to any length.
Why am I so forgiving of others, and never forgiving of me, why can't I see?
Other people see the beauty that I have inside, yet it remains my mystery.
God help me, allow me to see the good in me, so that I can finally sleep.
Sometimes I feel as if I'm in over my head, as if I'm in this way too deep.
I love people, and they mean the absolute world to me, why can't I love me?
It seems like it should be such an easy thing for me, yet it's not my reality.
I lay on the ground, my wounded body dying, wondering what to rearrange.
I lay here as my heart bleeds, crying silently, not knowing how to change.
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1111111111111101 11011101111110101 111111111101 101011111111 111111101110100111 11011111111100111 01001111011101011 1111111001001110111 110011001011101111 11111101101111111011 1111111010011111111 11111111101110111101 1111010110010010111111 101010101110111011100 11101111010111111001 01111110101111101111 111001101011111111 1111111110111111110 1110111010101001101 111111110100110111 |
Characters | 1,402 |
Words | 296 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 54 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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