Analysis of Hurt
The world comes hard and fast
A freight train blasting through
Running into my chest
Beating the shit outta me
I’m hit so hard
Its shock runs me over.
It hurts to be here sometimes
The world weighs on me
So heavy I can’t get going
Even the morning
Feels painful enough not to try
I pray for night and sleep.
My chest aches with pain so real
My body goes limp and numb
The beat down is inescapable
I can barely breathe
Until a breeze blows
Reminding me I can exhale.
The reality I can breathe at all
Opens up my aperture
Peace sweeps me
As I release the hurt and anger
The lesson remains:
Protect yourself but love others.
Hurt is the sign we’re human
The greatest among us taught this
And still we hurt them, too
I found the cure to heal it
Comes when I open
My hands to help like I’d want.
The great healing to yourself
Comes when you let it go
Holding onto hurt just hurts longer
Here inside is your medicine
Your personal balm in Gilead
Tears do fall never to return.
Copyright © 2023 Charles Edward York
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101 011101 100111 1001101 1111 111110 1111101 01111 11011110 10010 11001111 111101 1111111 1101101 01110100 11101 01011 01011101 01011111 1011100 111 110101010 01001 01011110 1101010 01001111 011111 1101111 11110 1111111 0110101 111111 101011110 10111100 11001001 11110101 101101 111110111101100010101010010111111010100100010110010100101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,253 |
| Words | 251 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 38 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
Hurt reminds us we are human but motivates to heal and help heal others.
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Written on April 21, 3023
Submitted by charlesedwardyork on April 21, 2023
Modified on April 29, 2023
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