Drown



I will sleep with
my eyes  o p e n .
I will breathe  u n d e r w a t e r .
I will drink my coffee  c o l d  if that is
what it takes to become less like  y o u .
The thought of being like you is so  p a i n f u l , I'd
rather  d r o w n .
Loving you is the most painful memory-I'd rather
p e e l  off my skin in the places you left your kisses. The places
you bit and licked and left your
l o v e .
Some say, "it is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
I cannot bring myself to agree with such words, because the pain of loosing you
was far too much to bear than the idea of never having known you.
Call me a fucking coward for running away from this pain,
but if I have to face it another day,
I would rather
d i e.
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Written on 2016

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFBGHIJKEELMGJ
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 744
Words 183
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18

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