It Hurts



It hurts
This heart of mine
A self-deprecating little thing
How unfortunately full of misery
But what does it matter
It's who I am
Who I've always been
It's suffocating
And there's no limit
A sour dose of poison
It fills my lungs with all its toxicity
Yet somehow I'm still breathing
How self-destructive could this be
I have fallen and it stings
Fallen too far off the edge
A fractured bone means nothing
If not too much
This weight I carry
Gets heavier and heavier
How did I become like this
A self-made belittled mistake
Kept it inside
For far longer than I should
Lighting kerosene on such a fire
Leaving flames to char my own skin
And in the end no one knows
How bad this all still hurts....
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Written on December 31, 2021

Submitted by Arx7Echo on January 02, 2022

Modified by Arx7Echo on March 06, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGCHIDCDJKCLDEMNOPEGQA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 696
Words 131
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 27

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