Phantom Pain
My mission was written in stone
Hoping to mend itself with the rain
That seems unreasonable, now
I predicted the outcome before the start
Dancers before you were too
aggressive or too passive, never just right
They must have been
listening to a different melody
I am embarrassed by your attention
as if standing naked in a dream
Forgetting that fear will fly
away in the moonlight
Memories linger when
I let down my defenses
While I refuse to live in the present
Where your brightness shines
And I hide away remembering
flames that burned me before
My shattered pieces are afraid
they will crumble again
Not knowing that the mended
places are the strongest
And my fear of you is remembered pain
A phantom limb that is no longer needed
About this poem
This was part of poetry class exercise to respond to another of our poems. I don't know if this is how I want the final version to be but I can't figure out what to add and what to take away so here it is.
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Written on January 31, 2024
Submitted by Kaytee on February 08, 2024
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | XAXX XBXX XXXB CXXXXX XCXXAX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 754 |
| Words | 144 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 6, 6 |
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