Fence
Time, a horrible gate.
Pictures of past an impermeable gap.
We cannot pass.
Pained imaginings of who you are, who you were.
I ask in silence to be met with mute denial.
Much too soon I will be the voiceless ghost,
peering through the fence,
begging to be known,
to be real again.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 53 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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