Tackling Shadows



Life full of adversity, controversy, catastrophe

Every moment of pain, sorrow, and grief

Football helps me escape my misery

Sometimes autumn dreams turn into fall nightmares

Never again will my sanctuary turn into my prison

Never again will my escape turn into a trap

I'll give an all out effort to replace an ill comforted life

Play with passion for every fan that ever showed me compassion

Go all out for the little kid who can't

because of physical limitations

Sixty minutes of fun to erase the wall of hurt life has offered me!
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Submitted on November 11, 2010

Modified on April 20, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A X A X B X X B X X A
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 521
Words 94
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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