The Last Good Thing



Endless days blurred together
Each one harder than the last
No hope left to hold on to
All happiness in the past

No place in this world
For a dark and wayward soul
Cut off from society
Alone with nowhere to go

Going through the motions
In an emotionless living hell
Until I found the thing I loved
More than I hated myself

Years of directionless wandering
And I wandered into you
One look into those sea-green eyes
And in that moment I knew

I have to be something better
Than the nothing I am now
From that day until forever
Became my unbreakable vow

Although the journey is no easier
I still keep up the fight
Because you are the last
Good thing left in my life

About this poem

Written for a person who inspired me not to give up in my darkest moment

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Written on June 29, 2022

Submitted by DLAMDiva on June 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCB XXXX XXXX XCXC ADAD AXBX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 667
Words 133
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Morgan Bland

Morgan Rhianna Bland is an AVM (arteriovenous malformation) survivor and aspiring writer from Knoxville, TN. The only child of older, overprotective parents, she was raised in a secular democrat household in the middle of the Bible Belt. Due to her illness and her upbringing, she grew up bullied and misunderstood by her community, but she found comfort in the written word. She hopes to use her writing to improve the world so others won't have to go through what she once did. more…

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  • josephe.70617
    I really enjoyed this poem and have read it several times. I could feel the narrator's determination for self-improvement in order to be good to this beloved being, and could sympathize with the narrator's bleak era in life and the thrill felt for the introduction to this being. It is heartfelt and honest, well done! 
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