World of Despair
Her eyes sparkle in the sun.
Like the warmth of gold honey.
Her cheeks are rose-red.
Blissful and kind.
Gleaming a radiant smile.
In a world of lies.
Underneath.
Hidden away.
A world of despair.
She doesn’t say.
Day by day, she conquers away.
Nourishing herself of lies,
Just to pull through the day.
Living with regrets,
She reprehends herself
With the life of misuse,
Rebuked and mismanaged.
Drawing back in fear,
With the verge of a hand.
Condemned with lacerating words.
Shielding everyone out.
Knowing consequences she’ll entail,
If she retreats.
She yearns for herself.
Delicately fragile.
Pursuing herself.
Mending patches of life.
Drowning in oppression,
but swimming in quicksand
to get out.
Imperceptibly she heals.
About this poem
This is one of my many poems I have written. This poem is about an abusive relationship. She survives through the hard times and over some time she heals herself after leaving.
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Written on December 01, 2020
Submitted by cfautherree on July 22, 2021
Modified by davidb on September 02, 2021
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| Scheme | AXXXX BXCXC CBC XDXX XEX FXX DXDXAEFX |
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 699 |
| Words | 117 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 3, 8 |
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