On the verge

Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)



What if it collapses?

What if I break?

I'm falling, dying slowly

Ego torn to pieces

Bright sunshine on the edge of a heart holocaust

There is bleak, and then there is darkness

Dark sunrises

Black holes swallowing the whole moon

The imminent collapse of a society torn from the inside

Breaking from the inside

I wander aimlessly

Ponder endlessly

Contemplate my namelessness

I am a nothing, a nobody

But I am witnessing the end

Silently

Praying that final collapse just

Please

Doesn't

Happen
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Quick analysis:

Scheme A X B X X X X C C B A B X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 514
Words 111
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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