Your Lifeless Form
Do You Bore Yourself?
Do you rent the space
you’re standing in,
owning nothing in the end
but default?
Do you recycle words
until their utterance fails,
mistrusting your ability
to say what’s right?
Do you hedge your bets,
never going all in
for fear of losing the very thing
you haven’t got?
Do you count the days,
as tedium destroys spontaneity
and all energy drains
from your lifeless form?
Do You Bore Yourself?
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 01, 2019
Modified on March 13, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A xbxx xxcx xbxx xcxx A c |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 445 |
Words | 78 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1 |
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