Broken
I see
From the outside looking in
At the neat and tidy house
At the pictures on the walls and on the counters
At the smiles and conversations with the neighbors
I see
From the inside
All the movie nights and the nighttime fights
All the family hugs and dinners
Where one move makes every smile thinner
I feel scared
About my self and my future
Who I am and who I’ll be
I look at them and I know
Cut from the same cloth
But I have the tattered pieces
Sewn together with a crooked needle
The knot so small it could easily unravel
I take the ugly pattern and I stuff it in a pocket
And I fear the times it slips out and comes apart
And I yell
And I scream
And I cry
And I pick up the ugly, broken pieces and sew them back together with that crooked needle
And I pray it doesn’t come out again
I pray that I’m not just that ugly cloth
Even though deep down I know I am
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Submitted on April 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 844 |
Words | 179 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 4, 6, 3 |
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