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Sleep

E.S. Conway 1985 (United Kingdom)

Gentle sleep, my long lost friend,
Why have you left me this night.
Why have you left me to wander alone,
Consumed in hatred and spite

Unable to function, impairing my thoughts,
Decaying my very foundations.
My slow decent into madnesses world,
Overwhelmed with angry frustrations.

With you by my side, I can conquer the world.
But not if you never come back.
A week it has been since sleep came around,
Come back my dear friend, come back.
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Submitted by almostemily on May 09, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBCB CDXD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 429
Words 79
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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E.S. Conway

A poet by proxy of therapy. Her works (with only a couple of exceptions) are comprised of poems written in a form of therapy diary, they served for several years as an aid to dealing with situations that may or may not be within the poems themselves. This is also the reason for so much rhyming; though not necessary for poetry, it was part of what made poetry therapeutic for her and so is an almost certain constant. more…

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