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Empty

LARRY ALSTON

Lacks content with vacant beats
inner most central part of me
discharging spirits within
lacking force and rhythmless
hollow with sound of echoes
frigid is its might
alone inside
this is mine it feels no more
my heart is empty

L.A. (04/02/11)
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Submitted on April 10, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCADEFGB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 233
Words 43
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
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