Analysis of The Paper Trail
1. Spend a lot of my free time being happy. Spend a lot of my time enjoying myself.
Shutting my eyes tightly, figuring how to forget/ignore the storm ahead. Perhaps, I have been cursed.
The hurricane of my mistakes is ready to take off the roof of our/my house. It's finally here, finally!
2. In my nightmares, I hear your careful footsteps going down the stairs and the creaking sounds of the luggage I asked you to throw out.
Once again, I am alone. Imprisoned by my own mind and the broken frames on the wall, exuding memories of my viciously clawed fingers.
In spring, you arrived like a summer breeze. It's winter when you left me in the cold.
Our favorite tree is buried under the snow. Our house is soaked by its flakes. My heart is frozen by your disappearance. My worst season.
Wanna know a secret? I still never shut the door. Call me delusional, but I pray you will return.
3. Finally, the storm is here! It came in the mail today. Two signatures is all it takes.
The clock strikes six.
How could a single paper haunt me?
Rattling my wooden windows, pitter-pattering alongside my heartbeat, having me thinking in my sleep and tossing in my favorite bed.
Grasping my wet pillow, replaying the things we could have done better. Things I should have said.
My dreams become worry, and food tastes like chaff. Running away from the moment we will eventually have to part.
Why do I always do this to myself? Choose to be happy when I was meant to be sad.
Perhaps, I just need to recycle this obsession for rest.
I love you too much to believe we won't have an ever after. Please don't tell me it's for the best.
4. Watching nights become days, a single sheet becoming my greatest dismay.
Took a walk around the street, found some kids, and gave them sweets. My smiles melting like clay
How can a single paper taunt me?
One, two, three, the clock strikes six. Law buddies firing up my phone. Hope is long gone.
Will a pen put an end to our love? Tell me, My son?
Leaving mommy for her?
Scheme | X X A X X X B X X X A C C X X D D E E A X B X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111110101011110101 1011101001101010101011111 0101101110111011101111001100 01111110110101001011010111111 101110101011110010110101010011100110 01101101011101111001 10100111010011011111111110110101110 10101011101011101001111101 1000111110010111001111 0111 110101011 1011010110111110110011010011001 1011100100111111011111 11011001111100110101101000111 11111111111101111111 011111010101011 111111011111101011111101 101011010101011001 10101011110111111011 110101011 1110111110101111111 10111111011111 101010 |
Characters | 2,125 |
Words | 419 |
Sentences | 47 |
Stanzas | 23 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 67 |
Words per line (avg) | 16 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
It's about those things, people will have to let go of in life but we find it excruciating to part ways.
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Written on February 26, 2024
Submitted by asongrophine014 on February 25, 2024
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