To be a rose



A women's woes
Grounds will quake

Emotional wreckage
Toll is mine to take

You're too deep
The masses call

How do they wonder
Why the kingdom did fall

Pour on me
Your expectations

There's shit to do
Can't be hesitations

Demanding functionality
It's all a joke

We need reprieve
Not another toke

Open your eyes to the burn out
Complete fracture

Struggle is real
Sanity I strive to capture

Peace is elusive
Rest a fiction

My self security a ghost
My life a walking contradiction

Soul aches to be heard
Body restless to be free

Holes in the sky cry out
No one would want to be me
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Written on September 10, 2021

Submitted by rkeller520 on September 10, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XA XA XB CB DE XE DX XA FC XC XG XG XD FD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 565
Words 108
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

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