INTUITION GUIDED LIFE



Intuition is great,
Until you hit home run,
On each and every little thing,
Then you start to believe it.

I think when you know betrayal,
When it's all you've ever seen,
You can smell it from miles away,
And keep distance from the sidewalk.

Don't get me wrong,
I'm not afraid of a broken heart,
Behind this beautiful smile ,
Is a heart with a million bandages.

I mean, look at this heart,
There's no more room for mending,
There's no room for taking chances,
Another blow might be fatal, or final.

All the pain gave me intuition,
You can't hurt me,
I saw it coming and dodged a bullet,
But now my heart is full of what ifs.

What ifs for moments I didn't cease,
For the chances I didn't take,
Because I played it all out,
And I didn't win in that movie.

I don't know what's worse,
Living it and paying the price for it,
Or not living it at all to avoid the pain,
I'll never know, because I never lived it.

About this poem

What is better, to live and learn or avoid any road with a possibility of hurt?

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Written on July 22, 2023

Submitted by Liza.Njeri1 on July 22, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABC DXXX XEXF EBFD AGXX XXXG XCXC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 910
Words 209
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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