Last orders at the bar



Last orders at the bar

Look at me
I'm like
A ship wreck
Lying on the sea bed
Decaying
Covered in coral and rust
Too tired
Too weary
To
navigate my way back
to
the surface
Tired
of trying to avoid the bends
And
the turbulent flow
Just
to get to dry land
And
They're calling last
Orders
at the bar
But
I'm drowning
Oceanus
Has decided it's
Time

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It’s a realisation that you have to change

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Written on February 22, 2024

Submitted by pauljoe77 on February 27, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme a bxxxcdebFxFgexHxdxHxxaxcgxx
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 347
Words 74
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 27

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  • pkmason1954
    Direct strong imagery. Brutal in content, yet poignant.
    LikeReply21 days ago

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