Voices
LaDonna Hale 1986 (Detroit, MI)
You are worthless
You are ugly
You are better off dead,
You’ll never be great
You will always fail
You are dumb
You are unloved
Voices, please hear my cry
I am beautiful
I am priceless
I am perfect alive
I will not be great but extraordinary
I will always win
I am intellectually keen
I am loved by everyone around me
Voices hear my decree
You will no longer bring me down as I have learned to love myself for who and what God has made me into.
You are no longer welcome in my head
You will only haunt those who minds are dead
You have ruined my life so many times
Don’t worry I love and take care of mine.
About this poem
Just thinking and trying to eliminate the voices in my head.
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Submitted by Cheriehl32 on June 15, 2021
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | ABC XXXX XXAX BXXB B X CCXX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 593 |
| Words | 123 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1, 4 |
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