The Anteroom



The ghosts of patients
meander with these dark stains
on the walls, the floors.

Haunting the valley
are stories. They never cease,
like the waning moon.

The anteroom fills
with old and new visitors.
A cold wind blows through.

Time, that consumes everything
and memory, that forgets.

About this poem

Time in an institution.

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Submitted by brmcc9 on June 08, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXX XXX XX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 285
Words 55
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 2

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