Living Dead
Sarah Daniels 1991 (St. Louis)
Can you hear me
Quiet and enraged
Silently screaming
Left on an empty page
War is thriving
Inside my head
Dying to feel alive
But mostly living dead
Words I can’t find
Are stuck in my throat
Suffocating my mind
Forcing me to choke
Time is persistent
Leaving us in pain
Looking for permanence
Yet spiraling down the drain
Trying to survive
Hosted by dread
Fighting for our lives
We dangle by a thread
Our battles were lost
And our joy was misled
Existing like ghosts
Alive but mostly dead
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Written on 2016
Submitted by Wideeyedwalker on August 13, 2023
Modified by Wideeyedwalker on August 13, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAX ABCB DXDX XEXE CBXB XBXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 95 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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