im nnot getting better
"Your life is getting better"
Something I want people to believe
My pillowcases are getting wetter
Happiness is hard to achieve
"You have a beautiful smile"
How can something beautiful be fake?
I haven't had a real one in a while
I'm not sure how much I can take
"Take a couple deep breaths"
I feel like I'm trapped
I've witnessed so many deaths
I think something in me snapped
"You're just like your father"
Five words I don't want to hear
I'm scared of being a shitty brother
But I guess I just attract what I fear
About this poem
a poem about faking happiness to make people believe the narrator is getting better.
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Written on January 09, 2023
Submitted on November 21, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF AXAX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 109 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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