I Walk the Line
I have reached the pinnacle
Of abandonment-
There I lorded over Fear
As a heathen god does culpability
Then, as now the oracle lives
Like a vista ever revealing deeper scenery
In the revelations
Horizons broaden
The way night holds creation
All encompassing
I walk the line;bridgeless-
Homeless then, I know anxiety
The kind every veteran knows
The kind every parentless child binds
Like the veins
Passing the nutrients of bereavement
Now the argument:
To stay one step closer I bar,
The pathways of illumination
Keeping these heights of
Such depths, my own
Here, I am-alone
And this alones
This Oneness
Is the pinnacle of Loneliness
Fear is terrible thing
Far worse
Than reality can ever be.
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEDFGGHEDIJKBBLGMNNEOOHPD |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 118 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
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