9 Lives



Recent events find me on a tightrope,

debating how I want to maneuver across the playing field of life.

I feel like a cat stuck in a tree. I clawed my way up here,

but I can't climb back down backward. How naive of me.

Comparing one of my 9 lives to a new chapter,

This one is now ending as I leap.
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Submitted on May 30, 2010

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 293
Words 63
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Martina Marissa Mueller

"I find freedom in writing. I grew up in a broken family and watched people around me leave my life because of alcohol and drugs. I spent some time homeless when I was 7, holding up cardboard signs with my mom and baby sister. I was left to ask a lot a questions about life at an early age. I always had a lot of passion and energy with my thoughts, whether they were good or bad. It's when I don't express that passion that I get into trouble. For I am passion and when I am not passionate, I lose myself. I write to acknowledge, I write to cope. I write to let people see someone they think they know. It lets them see me, but most importantly, it lets me see myself. This is why I am successful now; this is how the victim became the victor. This is how I beat the odds." more…

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