Alone in a Nightmare



I sober at every laughter
this burden i cover
tingling under.

An elegy composed
dark, covert, vague and shaded
I alone rancid myself.

I seek every verse
of an underlying wish
to live without any waste.

Severed from me, my happiness
A child's slumber would I gladly wished
but a nightmare to me
had been left.
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Submitted on March 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AAA XXX XXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 296
Words 56
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 4

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