Tattered Dreams
Waking every day
finding part of me behind
The loom threadbare and empty
no yarn there left to find
Coming apart in pieces
stitches lose their hem
Expectations falling fast
inching toward the end
Daylight into darkness
bespoken twill in threads
Voices used to mend and fit
silenced, like the dead
Sleeping with the remnants
dreams of memories lost
Desperations patchwork quilt
—blanketing the cost
(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XXXX XXXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 428 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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