Death in footwell
Sapta 2022 (Kolkata)
I feel like I met you at your funeral
I brought the flowers not knowing your favourite
Your glass coffin cold and sutural
Your body bare with thin rasps savoring it
All the vacant seats are drenched leaving the last one
I read the eulogy to the mortician
He clapped- sharp, loud and long
I sat cross legged just to prolong
The time by which you will be forgotten
In the moss covered epitaph blue and sodden
I feel like I met you at your funeral
I loved you through a whole moment of sudoral
If I could love you through the white noise
I would worship your gifted poise
And memorise your ruinated mess
All of you, all of you, nothing less
About this poem
I wrote this poem when i fell in love with a person who was at the lowest of their life and it pains me to write that i couldn't help them to get better. I couldn't be the one they decided to wake up in the morning, i couldn't do much for them but i tried, i tried my best. And i hope wherever they are, they are doing much much better.
Written on November 10, 2022
Submitted by thealchemist1308 on November 23, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | Abab ccddcc Aaeeff |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 129 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 6 |
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