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Patiently Waiting for Silence

Sierra Futch 2004 (Pennsylvania)

Free verse
Patiently waiting for silence

I patiently wait for silence
For bodies to stop moving
For air to enclose within itself
I wait until it's over
I get up and wash off the noise because its too loud on my body
I scrub each moan and lie off of my skin
And they go down the drain with the rest of the noise.
I patiently wait for silence after “Are you sure”
I’m not but I can’t beckon the words
I can’t reject because I know how it feels
So I lie back and welcome the noise
And continue to wait for silence
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Written on July 05, 2023

Submitted by sierrafutch9 on November 24, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A AXXXXXBXXXBA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 513
Words 106
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 12
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