Bones
Please don’t try to distill me
My disquiet is mine and it’s lonely
Like my name and my feet it belongs unfree
I feel in my bones.
When you speak your questions
To you the answers have no meaning
Something soft within my mind is breaking
I feel in my bones
How your fears and poison seep into my bloodstream
Through a kind melody that drifts on a cool breath.
I am free to believe the sweet or the ugly
I feel in my bones
The last seems to come easily.
When I sleep those words resonate.
I try to love but for myself I am filled with hate.
I feel in my bones
That you have tried to distill me
I don’t need you to inflict or bare witness
My disquiet is mine and it’s lonely.
I feel in my bones.
Because my body has lost its heat.
About this poem
This poem is about searching for yourself within yourself when all the voices try to influence you.
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Written on July 24, 2022
Submitted by alida_k on December 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | aAbCdeeCfgaCahhCaiACj |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 157 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
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