There Was Evening, and There Was Morning
In the cold,
black dots drip into my vision,
holding back all I want to see.
Like pieces missing
from a puzzle, I must find them
before I can continue.
On a rope,
I repel deeply into the depths
longing for one more shred of light.
The sneaky solutions
do not hide; they do not burrow,
but have a way of crawling up inside you,
like a spring bubbling,
up out of the Earth they come
taking that one blindness forever.
The spots have never
fully cleared, for then, most surely,
I would know and would be done.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABCXDXXX XXDCXEEBA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 98 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
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