"Mortality"
Mortality is simple in this life,
Humans fear the unknown;
We fear what we do not know.
But I've never feared the unknown;
I've feared the known more.
The unknown are my friends.
Always have and always will be.
You will never take away -
My gift of perception,
It is who I am.
Without it, I may as well not be me.
This is how I know -
I'm not meant for a long life.
I've known so many things since childhood.
But no one wanted to listen.
Again, humans fear the unknown.
They become bullies to the unknown,
When they should fear the known.
About this poem
So this is about me and my existence, knowing things about the known and unknown. One scares me, the other does not. I've been bullied for my esoteric nature more than once by friends, and family alike.
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Written on March 03, 2024
Submitted by EtherealHydri on March 04, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 128 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3 |
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