Leaving This World
I’ve looked and watched
you turn away
Seeing things
you’ve long denied
I grabbed the lion
by his mane
Staring through
the devil’s eye
I bought
a one-way ticket
While never
looking back
I’ve sailed and searched
the roughest seas
My rigging
often slack
I gave away
all that I had
And asked for
nothing more
I played the game
and damned the rules
Rejecting
any score
I stole my fate back
from the wind
Which blew
from side to side
And asking once
my only wish...
—to leave this world alive
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 18, 2018
Modified on April 21, 2023
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Scheme | XA XB XX CD XX XE XX FE AX GG XX FG EX CB XX X D |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 537 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1 |
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