The Magician
She’s an escape artist
Now you see her, now you don’t
Mystified, with tears in her eyes
She’s a lone wolf
She has a Midas touch
Everyone she grazes turns to gold
She makes you feel like you’re one in a million
She’s one of the greatest stories told
She’s the Wild West
You better come prepared to draw
She’ll take your heart and rip it out of your chest
She’s an outlaw
Her eyes penetrate your soul
She doesn’t even have to try
Even when she’s suicidal
One glance has you high
She’s an enigma
She’s the one that got away
She’s the one you wanna marry
And the one you can’t get to stay
She’s a ticking time bomb
Hit her trigger and she’ll see red
In 0.3 seconds she’ll make you her target
Verbally assault you and leave you for dead
She’s candid and heartbroken
She holds all of her cards as close as she can
She doesn’t believe in feelings
And that gives her the upper hand
She’s a Magician
& for her next trick
She’ll make everyone that loves her
disappear
She’ll wander back into her lonely world
Where she has nothing—
so she has nothing to fear
About this poem
I read Tarot cards and I happened to pull The Magician card as my theme for the month of June. I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of a magician because I used to have friends call me “Houdini.” I used some real things I have beads from people I once was close with.
Written on June 10, 2023
Submitted by gilliansc1102 on June 10, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AAXX XBCB DEDE XFXF XGXG XHXH CXXX CXXIXXI |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,123 |
Words | 230 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 7 |
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