Asking for a dream
warming my feet before the ardent flames
casting shadows and numberless blames
I close my eyes and refuse to see,
these mortal beings dying of curiosity
to the crippled window I then crawled
exulting my spirits to kindle tender dream
on finding rotting leaves I than screamed
hopeless grieving asking for a dream
a never ending dismal paranoid me whole
while glancing those eroded stones I condole
half immersed in Ivy and misery,
had I wrenched these ruins into hauntening aviary.
long hope had went to a sorrowful sleep
all I had done is waiting in a void realm
but rosy hopeful dreams never liked visiting steep
then I ceased casting shadows in the day of gleam
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Written on November 13, 2022
Submitted by khadijabilal on March 22, 2024
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Scheme | AABB XCXC DDBB EXEC |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 673 |
Words | 128 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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