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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
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 494
Words 95
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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