Fortune



This poem is the cry of someone abandoned.
A wound so carved and deep,
That projected him into uninhabitable alleys,
but also elevated him to galaxies never explored;

Friends are his family, harbor, and oxygen.
Chaos is his fortune, destruction, and home.
Attention so non-existent that it became his fetish;

Twisted paths,
Faulty decisions,
In the hope of a benevolent future,
Coming from all the smiles once he snatched,
That, like stars, make him brighter.

About this poem

This poem is when I decided to leave the past behind and wear the scars proudly, also it was originally written in portuguese, which made extra challenging to capture ambiguity

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Written on September 03, 2022

Submitted by kserra on December 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XXX XXAXA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 463
Words 88
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 5

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