Analysis of A Mother's Pain
I'm the mother of an addict,
and I don't know what to do.
It's been more than a decade,
so it isn't something new.
The pain, the fear, the darkness,
it doesn't go away.
I try so hard to hide it,
and push through each and every day.
During bouts of sobriety,
he's most amazing and so kind.
But then the devil returns,
leaving him so very blind.
Blind to the pain his family feels,
when his eyes are so empty and lost.
Blind to how much he gives up,
for a high at any cost.
I used to wonder where I went wrong,
but I'm beyond feeling shame.
Watching him hurts so badly,
but I know I'm not to blame.
I'm the mother of an addict,
and I don't know what to do.
I don't know how to help him,
I simply don't have a clue.
In my mind I've buried him,
a dozen times at least.
Will that ease the pain,
when he's really found deceased?
I've watched the machines breathe for him,
doing all the work.
While he just lies there helpless,
with only a periodic jerk.
He fights so hard at times,
enough to give me hope.
But sadly he seems to always,
fall back on the dope.
I don't know how much longer,
I can hide the pain and fears.
One of these days it will burst,
and I'll just break down in tears.
I'm the mother of an addict,
and I don't know what to do.
Please don't judge or shun him,
Lord knows he feels the pain too.
Scheme | ABxb cdxd efxf xxxx xgeg ABhb hixi hjcj xkxk xxxx ABhb |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (82%) |
Metre | 10101101 0111111 1111001 1110101 0101010 110101 1111111 011101001 10110100 11010011 1101001 1011101 110111001 111111001 1111111 1011101 111101111 1101101 1011110 1111111 10101101 0111111 1111111 1101101 0111101 010111 11101 1110101 11001111 10101 1111110 11000101 111111 011111 1101111 11101 1111110 1110101 1111111 0111101 10101101 0111111 111111 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,316 |
Words | 318 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
My son has struggled with addiction for at least 15 years and he's only 31. Heroin is his drug of choice but he'll take whatever he can get his hands on. Today he ended up in the hospital yet again and this poem flowed from my heart to my paper in about 10 minutes. Addiction affects everyone it gets close to and this tells a little about how it affects me.
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