Most Often Missed
Some things are unknowable as they are,
and need an alias to come true
Some people only known through someone else,
and you must look hard to see through
Not in hiding, but contained within,
symbiotic they exist
To live and die within something else
—a thing most often missed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 31, 2019
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 318 |
Words | 54 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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