If You Break.



Hands weave webs of many colours,
as tiny souls are thrown from firey windows.
Creeping skin of soot sheets the face,
when petols of dust are musked in disgrace.
Emerging from clouds tears eyes wide open, so that they can scream with all that is left of their very beings.
Washing your body is like the the return of 2,996 angels into heaven.

About this poem

A photograph allows the soul to look at the body objectively.

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Written on October 14, 2021

Submitted by heathert.34240 on September 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAAAAB
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 338
Words 64
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

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