Prisoner of My Mind
Elizabeth Roberts 1987 (Lansing)
A raging war inside my head
Thoughts consuming,
A prisoner.
Worries wandering
Problems blooming
Nothing is really wrong
It's all so confusing
Slow it down, hit pause
Try to rewind
Too late all memories lost
Hit play try to make sense
Overthinking
Always analyzing
Causing issues
Guided by mistrust,
Alone forever.
A Prisoner in my own mind
About this poem
I wrote this poem because I was in a dark time in my life and it just made sense.
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Written on October 18, 2018
Submitted by jbkmills on May 23, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 342 |
| Words | 64 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
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