Side B, Track 1



Your existence is revelatory
Of the choices you make,
And whether it's the main
Or back roads that you take.

The world will never
Revolve around you.
But you can be the sun
That keeps my skies shining blue.

So sing to me
The song of your life.
I want to be filled with melodies
of passion, happiness, and strife.

Make the metronome
In my chest skip a few beats.
I want to hear it all,
Even if it ends bittersweet.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB XCXC ADXD XXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 398
Words 81
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Rachel

I can't write about myself in third person, so let's make this an autobiography.I'm Rachel. I'm a nineteen year old college student. And, well, I'm pretty boring. I'm awkward, and I'm selfish. I'm both too serious and too whimsical. I'm hundreds of conflicts contained in a girl. I've only had one real love and I've been head over heels since I was fourteen (He's too stubborn to leave). Most things I write have a little of him between the lines. I'm trying to find my way through growing up and constantly fighting my instincts to pack up and runaway. I think too much and terrify myself. Life scares me and sometimes I forget to live. Insomnia and feeling lost led me here (it also led me to start blogging: http://growinguplostgirl.blogspot.com/)I'm here to grow so please critique anything and everything I post. The structure of my poems would probably give my old high school English teachers a heart attack. My punctuation, or lack there of, probably wouldn't make them feel any better. I get that people are very protective of their creations, but you can tear mine to shreds, as long as you respect the emotions behind them. Harsh criticism wont make me sob into a pillow, promise. more…

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