"in restraint" a poem in free verse



In the way to see,
see me hinder in you fool.
It's alive in your mind,
rivers run under black,
fade, fade away,
stray under the strains walk in shame,
run on your hearts attack,
in evanescent plumes.
Run, run away,
on broken legs that never heal.
Hear the same,
taste in the stains,
she left in your eyes that you tear,
as you sink in the sand,
that was laid by my solemn hands.
Sink in your brains monkey pit,
as you scream, scream away,
as you fade,
fade on her face,
in the broken heart,
left on your name.
She's in clay,
molds of tiny enraptured souls,
that see,
beneath,
you
and
me...
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 28, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFDGEHFIJKLMENOPFEQARSTA
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 562
Words 115
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28

Steven Louis Chapman

Steven was adopted, his biological father was an English professor who had an affair with a student. Writing poetry is an outlet for his expression of love. A hopeless romantic in search of his soul mate. (it changes from now and then) He hopes to capture the girl of his dreams through poetry. Visit my blog at http://thedailypoetrss.blogspot.com/ for the latest up to date poems. more…

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