Intrinsic
She coils up inside of me
At the moment I need her most
Myself
Not afraid, exactly
But experienced
My inner child comes forward
And I assert myself
A puzzle
A program
A damning particle falls
On a preprogrammed stage
Where the only stain of
Incongruence is me
I struggle for balance
For poise
A proper self presentation
Is a struggle as a damning
Individualism (my own)
And counter culture
Is skittering through the pages
That are self expressive of the art of me
And firing them into the void
Of a collective treason
I am not against you
I tell myself as tightly coiled
She lies inside of me
In a desperate self preservation
That cannot or will not afford
The fires that are governed by mockery
By greed
By fear, festering agendas, and envy
I don’t have the time left
To care what they think
To be who they are
To fit in the little carefully assembled molds
I wasn’t born that way
Haven’t lived that way
And can’t understand that way
I am an individual
Valued as highly as any
Most certainly.
About this poem
This is a poem about what it means to be an individual in todays world after surviving Assualt and or mysogynistic domestic assault.
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Written on March 06, 2023
Submitted by melissaeaves37 on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBAX XBCXX XXAXX DXXXXA XDXXAD XAXAXXXX EEECAA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,014 |
Words | 198 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 6 |
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