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For without you, I don't know who I am.

Bernard Gabriel Okurut 1995 (Kampala)

Soliloquy
Perhaps,
...but a few lines of poorly written verse
Won't speak to your heart.
Am thinking of a bad joke not to crack,
Lest I upset you and break my heart.
Heavy sighs
And silence paint pictures of you
At the back of my mind....
Save me from myself,
For without you, I don't know who I am.

About this poem

It hurts, watching your loved one go just like that. These few lines can't spell out the pain I am going through. I wish there is something I could do to save us from falling apart.

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Written on October 09, 2022

Submitted by BernardGabrielOkurut on October 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDCEFGHI
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 289
Words 64
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
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Bernard Gabriel Okurut

A young Ugandan POET,singer, song writer. Author of the ' Noisy Silence'' a Ugandan poetry Anthology published by amazon.com. He is a student of English Language and literature at Kyambogo University in kampala, Uganda and the founder of Psychic Poetry, a young East AFRICAN'S poetry movement. more…

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