Deep Wounds
The promise of tomorrow
became a fancy of today
an illusion, dissolving
into thin air before my very eyes
the trace of a memory
still lingered on
clinging to my mind
I try to forget but those
claws tear, talons slice
leaving gaping gashes
as I rip it brutally
from its hiding place
leaving wounds forever more
those scars run so deep
and the memories still remain
winding deeper into my mind
I pull harder dragging those
dark memories thread by thread
but they don’t come quietly
shredding my thoughts
splintering my soul
A trace left behind
leaves me shaken
I feel freer somehow, as though
the dark shadow has been
banished, conquered
finally defeated
better memories fill my mind
happiness and laughter
love and light
flooding in , filling me
with wonder
those darker memories
just a shadow
still there buried deep
if I close my eyes
i see them at the
edges of my mind
wisps in the darkness
locked behind a door
© L Conway 2021
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Memories
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Written on 2021
Submitted by MidlandAngel68 on September 07, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABXCDXE FXXDXG HXEFXDXX EXAXXX EIXDI XAHCXEXG B |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 892 |
Words | 168 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 8, 6, 5, 8, 1 |
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