Analysis of A lying shroud
m I mad to miss the pain of your loss?
After initially numb, flattened by the utterly incomprehensible gift of spiritual closure, of forgiveness,
I am now bereft.
Was this bloody burden truly such an integral appendage as to leave me stumbling at the absence of its crushing weight?
I seem to have forgotten the me that lay hidden beneath the shroud of loss. It’s cloying, groping roots reached in and wrapped about the throat of my inner child -who was once shone with passion and innocent hope- and strangled it.
And I was deaf to my own cries
Seduced, drunk on the exquisite agony of your absence, the regurgitated memories of soft moments, the stillborn longing held close and rocked in a mockery of life.
Oh, how I wished for life to once more whisper into that corpse...
I held it up, moved its lips and ventriloquized the words we would say when finally reunited. I wept tears in floods against its cold flesh with arms wrapped tight, pretending it was you.
Such abject fantasies replaced whatever I was before
Hopes once clear and bright now become merely roadmaps to self inflicted failure.
The shroud was lifted but nothing hides beneath.
I am no longer there
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Metre | 1111101111 1001001101010000100111000101010 11101 11101010111000101111100101011101 111101001111001011111010110010101111011111110010010101 01111111 0111010010011100110011100111011010010011 111111111100111 11111110101111110001011101011111111010111 1101001101101 111011011011101010 01110110101 111101 |
Characters | 1,159 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 72 |
Words per line (avg) | 16 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Written on October 29, 2021
Submitted by lameinsane on November 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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