Coloring In The Spaces
Trying to understand
why you marked up your body
—I stared at the ink
The memory of your open promise
still inside of me
—unfulfilled
Retracing that promised memory
with new symbols
—stained forever
You colored in the empty spaces
I was unable
—or unwilling to see
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 10, 2019
Modified on March 22, 2023
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| Scheme | XAX XAX AXX XXA X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 318 |
| Words | 51 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
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