Car Crash



Listen to your eyes.
Take note where they linger
and where they don't.

Take note at whom you catch
yourself starting and whom
you couldn't bear to watch.

Take note of those whom
you can't bring yourself
to turn away from, like
a driver, passing by,
an onlooker at a car crash,
a sight you can't peel your
eyes from, if your life
depended on it.
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Written on 2019

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022

Modified on March 13, 2023

23 sec read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XAX AXXXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 346
Words 73
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 8

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