the Beginning starts at the end
Ascending cast iron steps,
as if to reach music coming from nowhere.
Approaching an abandoned crest,
gently yet effortlessly hurdling a silver steel bar.
No platform on the other side,
but instead of falling fast,
I glide.
Floating as a pantamorphous cloud,
through deathly still winds,
to some kind of structure,
that seems to bend.
Featherless mercurial sandals land.
An abandoned park; milky sand.
A street sign lying down as if to sleep.
Says "Pirate's Bay", what a strange name to keep.
Metal stars soar overhead adorned with swastikas
that seem to pierce vast black holes in the sky.
Instead of exploring this realm, i decide,
to see what lies on the other side.
I leap to the fissure, an immovable eye,
concealing all matter of incomprehensible light.
Bonded in crystalline, shining acrylic.
In all the excitement, i woke up... to music.
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Submitted by Amarantine on April 28, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX AXA XXXX BBCC XDAADXEE |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 832 |
Words | 143 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 4, 8 |
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