Walls



I guess I'll never know the whole truth
You act so confident behind your paper thin walls
Barely strong enough to dam away your tears
Maybe you built them to protect yourself
Maybe you built one to protect me from you
Remembering only the pain from your past
Your mind turning heroes into villains
Dragons of your past must die by your own hand
Clouds of fear making my white armor look black
Asking for a trust that could never be earned
Use your internal Sun to end the storms forever
Although a calm sea never made a strong captain
We all deserve to enjoy the serenity of self-love

About this poem

Dedicated to Andrea Young after she broke up with me for reasons I couldn't fully understand.

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Written on February 12, 2022

Submitted by em4ms on February 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLM
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 585
Words 110
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

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