Filling in the Gaps
A rock clatters to the ground.
Left in the dark, it lends it’s existence to let out an echo.
On silent wings, another rock is thrown.
Not seen, not felt. But heard all the same,
Echoes telling me where the walls are.
It strips me of myself,
Never greedy, peeling away layers of soul like pages from a book.
Slowly, the walls ooze forth progress.
It’s just blood, then flesh, then bones,
Designing a form I recognize less every day.
Emptying me out, and creating echoes of rocks I once threw.
About this poem
I realized far too late that I was losing myself to social media. I was in a bad place at the time, and I used the feedback from my posts as a way to feel less isolated. But, as I invested more and more time into social media, I realized that I was becoming something I didn’t quite recognize anymore. I’ve been experimenting with acrostics as a sort of hidden ending, a true conclusion, and I think that it pays off here.
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Written on May 28, 2022
Submitted by ethanmp428 on July 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | XXXXX XXXXXX |
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 496 |
| Words | 102 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 6 |
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