Dear
Is it obvious that I love you?
Do I need to tell you again?
I want to. I miss you… hurt by what you’ve put me in.
It’s not your fault
neither hers
and still I wish
to erase the pain
erase your heart, your shame and one unforesaken reign
What would love do?
Does it matter?
What does God care if tears spill?
Does a flower care, if a farmer curses a heavy spring shower?
I am whole without you.
I am lost with you.
Your arms a fortress,
my heart a dragon breathing smoke
over glistening treasures
of passions, of dreams, a gift
untreasured, unvalued, unseen
powerful enough to eviscirate
armies of vulgar knights believed worthy of wealth beyond their wildest dreams
and still...
they are all dead…
but one man
facing the sun instead
gilded unreal
divine, depicted
threatening to shame the sun for an arrogance enshrined
The castle whispers, do you see him? Is he real? A ghost?
Surely, no man could endure the dragon’s thick nuclear smoke...
and still you’re there
are you there?
he kneels
he crawls
through bones
through brackish filth
eyes ablaze
in pursuit of his goal
About this poem
Dear, I am cursing the place you stand while humbly kneeling at your feet...
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Written on July 22, 2023
Submitted by willow_c on July 23, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXX BCXDD AEXE AAXFCXXB X G XG XXX XF HHCXXXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,106 |
Words | 225 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 4, 8, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 7, 1 |
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