please stop I can’t take it anymore
I unlock the door
Walk into my home
I hear the familiar sounds
I fast forward the scene in my head
Barney is on the TV
Purple,fat and ugly
He used to be my childhood friend
His hide is dark purple like the potassium manganate I learnt about today
I’m 16.
K walks to the dining table and says Mummy Mummy Mummy
Change Change Change
Mother picks up the remote
rewinds the video
But K still sits there the same
Familiarity of our daily routine both soothes and sinks me
It’s the latter as Dad enters the house
K launches towards dad
a dagger with a mission
K hasn’t learnt that Barney won’t be his friend forever
I wish he had
But if he did
he wouldn’t be two people at once and one conundrum in 2 seconds
My brother is 19.
About this poem
It’s about my autistic brother. Covid quarantine and all the covid safety public measures were so exhausting for our family(and for everyone else too).
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Submitted by BRW on December 15, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX AAX XX AX XXX A X BXX BXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 753 |
Words | 166 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1 |
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