I didn’t know
I didn’t know
Who you were today.
You lowered your mask
And revealed a whole person,
A whole face.
I was stunned.
Like the first time I saw
A shooting star
Or
Mountains high as the sky
Or
Canyons as deep as wide,
And
Great love,
The kind that’s blind.
It caught me off guard,
but it all came together
And fit:
Your pain;
You’re a real person,
Hidden like a puzzle
To which I’d misplaced
Just one,
Single
Piece
to complete you.
In one moment,
One glimpse,
That wasn’t supposed to be,
You turned over your mask
And it all fit
Perfectly
Into your story.
And I realized I’d missed
So many pieces
of who you really were
Behind that mask.
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About this poem
This poem was written in 2020 w awww hike teaching face-to-face (irony) during the COVID pandemic.
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Written on February 24, 2020
Submitted by cscribes on November 15, 2021
Modified on April 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xxabxc xxDxDxcxx xefxbgxbgxx xxhafhh xxea |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 679 |
Words | 157 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 9, 11, 7, 4 |
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