Burning Up
I wish i could tell you whats on my mind
Not only will it hurt you
but its burning me inside
Like a lava it melts the strongest part of me
leaking through to the outside
and blackening the ground all around me
Every where i walk the lava follows
and leaves a trail that is not hollow
I am slowly turning into a liquid glop
knowing that it will not stop
I watch how my body just disappears
into a new form, right in front of you here
Why is this lava attacking my soul?
its because my secret is still untold.
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Submitted on January 22, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 494 |
| Words | 103 |
| Stanzas | 14 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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