Analysis of SET YOU FREE

mad hippie poet 1974 (new jersey)



Sitting inside this window as if I was some exhibit on display every day is in reverse. What is building up inside of me? What is this curse? What are these screams that set my soul on fire? What is spilling through my veins like the desert's rain? Something about this life continues to make me want to fight.

They had me sign this contract before being set down. I felt as if I had died before I even hit the ground. I was naked and cold, kicking and screaming, thinking, what the fuck am I still dreaming.

I picked my name, my life, and my death. Just like choosing your adventure, none of them are the same. I can not fast-forward to the future, and I can not rewind to the past, and at moments the present seems so unreal, but I can not taste, smell or touch it now. Ain't that some shit.

I'm in this room again, this life becoming another type of reality that I thought my aging eyes would never see. I'm on some medication. The doctors say we don't worry. They will put me at ease and set me free. I need my drugs, they say, because I have no energy from my mind-racing thoughts.

Come on, they say, let's play pretend there bathe in, is neither happiness nor sadness because you do not need them, for the sun is always shining back home, so why don't we set you at last free?


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Characters 1,287
Words 257
Sentences 19
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 198
Words per line (avg) 50
Letters per stanza (avg) 198
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Written on August 18, 2023

Submitted by Oakley on August 18, 2023

Modified by Oakley on August 18, 2023

1:19 min read
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mad hippie poet

I have been writing for 40 years my poetry is about life,death love,and redemption. after having two near death expiercences and a TBI my poetry has become more spirtual more…

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