lit
a man is a bomb,
he holds so much potential.
he holds weight.
the bomb waits.
many mistake it as harmless.
the bomb is not as noisy as the firework;
always puts herself out there, the fire works.
until the bomb is lit.
light travels up the end of the string,
and suddenly our celebration is a bloodbath
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Written on November 06, 2023
Submitted by victoria.sammacicci on November 06, 2023
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| Scheme | X X X X X X X X X X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 311 |
| Words | 76 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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