To sit beside it
It was something beautiful
And we made it so ourselves
And you, my sweet boy, felt compelled to leave
So I am compelled to sit beside it and grieve
And the carcass has moments of movement.
Twitches and minute breaths
And I can’t leave it’s side for
Battered and bruised as it is
It resembles us
Even in near death
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Written on July 17, 2023
Submitted by keziacotterrell64 on July 18, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 322 |
Words | 65 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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