Analysis of five w's of a mental breakdown



Who was the person who hurt me-
Who broke me and tore me apart,
Who wrote an apology letter in my blood,
And mailed it to my hospital room?
No name was signed, I looked,
But it did look like your handwriting.
You came into my room and
Snatched it out of my shaky hands.
You told me he was good at forgery,
And like a child, I believed you.

What will I be at the end of this?
What pieces are going to be left of me?
Will I look back at this game of smoke and mirrors,
And see how horrible I truly am?
Will I despise this person, this being,
This rotting and repulsive body I am in?
I let you use me as a Knight, and a damsel,
As both the counselor and the patient,
As both the infant and the caregiver.
What I am is none of those things,
Yet I am still so confused.

When will I be old enough, big enough,
Strong enough for it to stop?
The constant hassling, the bothering,
The hindering of my opportunities.
I was stuck inside a cage, decorated with pillows,
And I believed it was a bedroom.
When will I leave the bedroom?
When will I earn the key?
When will the age stop changing?
No matter how old I get, I’m always too young
To go and live the way I deserve,
But old enough to hurt the way you want.

Where can I go that you won’t find me?
Where in this forsaken planet
Can I step away without hearing your voice?
I see you in the shadows, I feel you with me,
I look over my shoulder constantly.
I hear you call my name across the country,
And I respond every time it happens.
Will you follow me to the ends of the earth?
To the depths of the sea? To judgement?
Where can I find peace from this dread-
I feel the most sick to my stomach
On my healthiest and brightest days.

Why can’t I say no to you?
Why is it such a crime for me to have autonomy,
To have some sense of self dignity?
You choke me in your embrace
And I beg you to stop and let me go,
But sharing blood means no rights,
So I must suffer in the name of a mother’s love.
A door that is shut must be opened,
Regardless of what is on the other side.
Whether it be a nap or a curtain,
Separation is not an option.
A desire to be alone is a crime in and of itself.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 11101101 111010010011 01111101 111111 11111110 1101110 11111101 1111111100 01011011 111110111 11011011111 111111111010 0111001101 1101110110 110001010110 111111010010 1101000010 110100010 11111111 1111101 1111101101 1011111 0101000100 0100110100 1110101100110 01011101 111101 111101 1101110 11011111111 110101101 1101110111 111111111 10101010 11101011011 11100111111 1110110100 11111101010 01011001110 11101101101 101101110 11111111 110111110 111000101 1111111 11110111110100 111111100 1110101 0111110111 1101111 1111000110101 011111110 01011110101 1011011010 01011110 0010110110100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 2,185
Words 512
Sentences 37
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 10, 11, 12, 12, 12
Lines Amount 57
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 324
Words per stanza (avg) 88

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The best time to write a poem is after you have been crying for half an hour.

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Submitted by ghosti on January 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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