Yearning
Lights are burning
In the window panes
Of the houses they silently drive by.
She wants to be anywhere,
Except with this guy.
It begins to rain
Making it hard to see through the glare.
Squinting she manages to perceive
A woman standing where
She yearns to be,
Inside one of those elegant homes.
Instead she is driving in this fancy car
Feeling completely alone,
On a road going nowhere
With a John who does not even know
Her real name.
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Submitted on February 05, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 419 |
Words | 81 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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