"Lately"



lately i've been afraid
to write about my thoughts
instead i've kept them bottled up
and i've hidden them from myself

lately i've been thinking about the sun
about her departure and why she left
lately it seems like everyone is leaving
taking one way tickets out of town

lately i've been hoping for a phone call
from a friend i haven't seen in a while
but i've been awake all night
tossing my head around my cold pillow
and the sun hasn't called back
will the sun ever call back?

lately i've been requesting second chances
i think that they're all dried out

About this poem

Written in November when I was seventeen and I wasn't sure who my friends were anymore.

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Written on November 19, 2019

Submitted by joshuan.20683 on June 10, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XXXX XXXXAA XX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 560
Words 108
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6, 2

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