Inner



In the twilight hours of thought,
When body is weary
Yet mind sleeps not,
Confrontations of a struggle hide
Behind shrouds of inner peace.

I tremble beneath this veil,
A cloud of centered confusion
Infused at once with aspiring brevity
And more than a share of dalliance.
Behold now, the advent of the altruistic.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XAXXX XXAXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 304
Words 54
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5

Nathan Reed Jensen

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