Analysis of Not Enough
I don’t just miss you..
I’ve missed you since the sound of your heart beat like a drum in my pool of life.
I’ve missed you since the tie to your womb was broken.
I’ve missed you every inch of my growing because every milestone in my life was less time in yours.
I’ve missed you in all of the moments a daughter challenged a mother, in the separation from your her nest.
Ive missed cuddles and coddles before you were gone.
I’ve missed what I didn’t know we had all along.
I put my stake in the ground and stood strong the storm that is you, thinking that to make you proud… there was nothing that I could do.
And all the years blew from the trees, every leaf was wasted time challenging what was already mine.
You told me in the end that I was seen, you knew all along that this day would come and that I would bleed… without you.
But it did not change the you that I knew… until I lost you.
Now every memory was a train that I couldn’t catch.
Memories we never made, I sketch,
Into the veil of the afterness,
Hoping you see them too,
So I can continue,
The life I never got with you.
And still I try to grow light from my womb, still I try to shine through,
All of the cloudy and rainy days when butterflies do not fly, to remind me of you.
I hold my hand now, to hold yours,now I am you. I focus on the age lines and count the days I’ve left behind, today I’m exactly 400 days closer to you.
This is me now and I will be a new me tomorrow,
But the me I was with you I cannot salvage I cannot borrow,
And time was not enough.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 111101111110101111 111101111110 1111001111001100101111101 11101101001010010000101101 1110101101 11111111101 111100101101111101111111101111 0101110110011101100110101 1110011111111011111101111011 111110111101111 11001001011111 100110111 0101101 101111 111010 01110111 0111111111111111 110100101110111101111 1111111111111010110101110101101011011 1111011101101 1011111110101101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,571 |
Words | 338 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 51 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 312 |
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A Loved Mother in the after life
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