Shadowbox



This I tell myself over and again
In the midst of sorrow, the pain and regret,
"Make sure you remember to never forget
This which I tell myself over and again:
It was from the deepest depth
That I saw the heighest height,
From the darkest dark,
I saw the brightest light,
From the pain of payment,
I found joy to give away,
Without all the losses,
I'd have nothing to gain,
This I tell myself over and again,
Seems I couldn't know one without the other,
"Never forget, come hell or high water."
Learn when wrong what it is to be right,
This I tell myself
For this, still I fight

About this poem

I wrote this in a dark time of life. Circumstances in life at the time rendered me in a hopeless, depressive state that I yearned to break free of. The poem explains that it's from bad places that we see the better. For me, it took knowing all the misery and bad to know what was good and with that I learned to appreciate things more.

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Written on September 12, 2017

Submitted by marshall_w on January 17, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AbbacdedfghiAjjdkd
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 578
Words 125
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18

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