Manic
I want to be anywhere but here,
Carried by a kite
or a river free and running
In the wind or water
far from where I am
Climb a tree and not come back
Scale a moonlit mountain til I reach the top
and dive into nothing
Fall from sky or heaven into hell,
just to not be here
Crash against the rocks
like rip-tide waves
or drift into the clouds and float away
forming faces as I go
Into the sunset,
after the stars,
brilliant in the dark.
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Submitted on May 28, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 89 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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