Unhinged



Do Not Enter
Yet curiosity picks at the rusty locks
Encasing that eldritch tomb
Where decaying love lays strewn

Creak and crack it stands ajar
Peering I rake the desolate void
Where mouldy memories hang from hooks
And whimpering joy peeps from crannies and crooks

Each wary step raises moon dust
A swirling black ballerina
Engulfing gladness in gloom
Soot and ashes covering the room

Feelings fade in tattered scrapbooks
Delight in a pile is shrivelled and torn
A blackened mirror shudders to bare
The gnarled image now I wear

Gravely I turn to leave this wretched place
Silently mocked by misery and woe
In the shadowy haze I stop and look around
Searching for sanity in the Lost-and-Found
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Submitted by leol.15970 on May 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAX XXBB XXAA BXCC XXDD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 673
Words 119
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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