emotional ransom
emotionally ransomed
developmentally arrested
this living shadow lingers
as the deathly shell's ingested
an all but a flesh and bone phantom
renunciate,
revoked assent
I'm a blood feast for the worms
In this torrent of torment
I take back each apology
I still can't tell what I was thinking
I take back every complement
I steal back every dime I spent
there's still a little something I should leave you
a trinket really
meaningless
without value
not one red cent
this memory will soon be dust
a faded face
striated with carbon rust
wither with the weary age
they'll make cartoons of us
to shoot off into space
I love this lie...
the ultimate illusion
If there's nothing past the corporeal
I'll have my conclusion
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AAXAXAAXA BXAA CBDCA AEAXDEFGFG |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 686 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 4, 5, 10 |
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