The Start



Toiling within, is the will to do
If only my body would will so too
But ticking and ticking
Time goes by, and that
little
Thing I wanted to do
Is infinitely larger
And far from through;

Then my thoughts quiet down
After thinking things through
And then I get up and
Do
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Submitted on November 25, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AAXXXAXA XAXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 257
Words 53
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 4

Shane Bowman

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