Arbitration



Stalking like a feral wolf is their memory
The very apparition that is the antithesis of me

Could I be indifferent mastering apathy
I would bend like the reeds and grant you what you seek

Would I razz your heart to abrogate your thoughts
And if I learned the truth could I take the cost?

Gorgeously disturbing is the daftness of this peril
Is it written I shall tame what I consider feral?

The stars they glimmer whispers, but they fail like all that falls
Could I heal the heart that memory has mauled?

I question you, to answer you, to grant you pieces of me
I must learn indifference and master apathy.
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Submitted on September 30, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA AX XX BB XX AA
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 594
Words 113
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

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