Analysis of After
After he died, he left behind these requests.
He wrote,
To burn him down to ashes in an altar of fire promised by gods,
To scatter those ashes in all of the nothingness he was
To fill in his blanks in their minds memories of whom he never was.
A father..., Mirroring love and shadowing pain,
Drowning sorrow and hosting joy.
A husband..., Leaning to loving her everyday in every way
Worshipping the maze of a temple her cleavages were. Holding unto her palms even when time adorns it with wrinkles.
A Man..., Strong and gallant appearance on the skin yet vulnerable and loving every whole of him within
All he was, was a locked up stranger in his mind.
Brewing hurricanes was all he never sought to be but somewhere they all discovered it was him.
He begged them,
To put on gloves that can slice through darkness clearer than sunlight
To leave the doors locked in their dreams so he wouldn't stager in the drunk he always has been
To wash away all the haunting moments reminding them of his knives stabs on their skins with his alcoholic screams.
To drown every memory of him within clenched teeth in a pool of all salivary misery he caused.
His evil wasn't born it was made when he was made to grow in a society glorifying self hate.
He died a long time ago even before the trigger was pulled, even before his skin hit the dust.
Scheme | ABCDDEFGHIJKLMINOPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111101101 11 111111001101101011 110110011010011 11011011100111101 010100101001 10100101 01010110010101001 1000110100101010011011011110 0110100101011100001010011101 111101110011 1010111101111111010111 111 11111111101011 110110111110100011111 110110101001011111111110101 1110010011011100111110011 11010111111111100010010011 1101101100101011100111101 |
Characters | 1,340 |
Words | 262 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 55 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,051 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 249 |
About this poem
It's my poem about loss, about family. About a man that wasn't there for his family until he died.
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Written on October 24, 2022
Submitted by celynokoro on October 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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