OUT ON A LIMB
I am frenetic and out on a limb
The life has gone out of my barren soul
My soul has slipped like a slithering python
My beloved daughter Bonnie was my soul
She was my soul, my soul
But now she is no more, no more
I ask myself and ponder
Why on me , I wonder
The wrath of God?
I have been leapfrogged
I am out on a limb
I am frenetic and my life grim
I cannot stop feeling the fire
The wrath of God on me, His ire
I am out on a limb, not my desire
The life has gone out of my desolate soul
I am frenetic in a perpetual hole, a perpetual hole
My beautiful daughter is no more, no more
The curtain has seemingly fallen on me
Why would otherwise I be
In a bonfire of agony?
Lost my beloved daughter
That too in an act of despair
I am frenetic and my mind impaired , my mind impaired
The life has gone out of my desolate soul
I am hopelessly out on a limb
Thrashed out in the freezing cold
My beautiful daughter is no more , no more
My relentless miseries untold, miseries untold
About this poem
Melancholy Loss Grief Love Lamenting
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Submitted by bpal on September 26, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 959 |
Words | 201 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 5 |
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