The other me
Meanwhile, the other ‘me’ is well and thriving.
He did not make the mistakes, I did
Not a single one of them.
He did all the right things at the right time in the right way
Thought all the right thoughts even
All his work and worships relations and realizations
Had always been perfect to the T
I don’t meet him often
As he isn’t for real
But when I do
He makes me think long and hard!
About this poem
A hard look at the best version of ourselves, as it could have been ...
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Written on March 06, 2022
Submitted by ghoshalraja on March 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 403 |
Words | 86 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
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