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Poison’s Lament

Lindsey McKnight 2000

October 23 
Free verse
How I long to be the air in someone’s lungs,
And the blood that pumps the heart.

Instead, I feel like a poison—
Infecting the brain,
Sucking life out of a body—
Trying to cure my own maladies,
And alleviate my own pain.

I hope it didn’t hurt.

I wish I was the remedy.

But I am not,
And I am sorry.

About this poem

I wrote this poem to express my feelings about my relationships and how I feel when they are coming to an end. My longing to bring happiness to someone that I love battles with my deepest fear of being a burden and 'infecting' people with misery when I find myself in a depression. I am sorry if you too have felt this pain.

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Written on October 11, 2023

Submitted by Knightly on October 11, 2023

Modified by Knightly on November 09, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XABXA X B XB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 309
Words 74
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 5, 1, 1, 2
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  • Pratip
    Pratip
    The subject is not cliched, the execution good, brief and effective.
    LikeReply 15 months ago
  • jimmyl.11861
    jimmyl.11861
    It moved me, was very powerful
    LikeReply 15 months ago

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