Dreams



I walk up this building
a thousand stairs

to look for a girl
a missing girl
to find that she was not there

I  had to climb down

I almost broke my arm

About this poem

This poem was written in 2004. I guess you have to take what you can from it. It leaves someting for your imagination.

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Written on 2004

Submitted by eugener.13042 on January 05, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX AAX X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 152
Words 36
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 1, 1

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