Glue
Nola Debera Leech 2003 (Iowa)
Bone skeletons and hallowed corpses
It’s not hard to pick out the ones that are already dead
Circus freak girls who look in the funhouse mirrors and see elephants staring back at them
Shrunken rib bones form into a cage that at this point barely holds a soul
Mix my blood into the many glasses of water you’ll drink today
So you too can feel hollow and empty
Fragile like broken glass, skin thin as paper
Insides cold as ice, snow glob girl trapped in breakable glass
Lipid eyes and blue fingernails
Unhealthy has become a muse
Heroine eyes and thin lipped smiles
Glass will eventually shatter, fruit will rot
Scraped skin and bruised knees
Pink lemonade daydreams
I am the definition of sick
Of self harm, of mental illness
I am the change, the wiling ness to get better
I have been broken but I know how to put myself back together
I can help you put yourself back together
It’s hard but all you need is glue
It’s starts with you
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Submitted by nolaleech1212 on April 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPGGGQQ |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 932 |
Words | 173 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
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