Contentment's Decay
Here I am again
4am again
Trying to hold it back again
Wasting life again
Cuz the longer I'm here in this room
With pen and paper...
I mean keyboard and liquor
I can ease the pain that looms
Nothing burns quite like it
Those first beams of light
They cut my veil of night
Bloodshot eyes sting and itch
I Rise and shine
Brilliant like rust
Caked in the dust
Of time not so kind
Pressing ever forward
With a determined procrastination
Outlasting bursts of brilliant inspiration
Resilient contentment of a coward
Caught lightning in a coffin
Shut the lid tight
Too afraid to let out the light
Entombed my effulgent ambition
Back in the dark
The safe haven I crave
In contentment's squalid decay
Never to make my mark
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Submitted on September 03, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 686 |
Words | 131 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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