Who I Am
Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)
My life is who i am.
No escaping the fact.
I watch it reconstruct itself,
both the traveler
and the map.
The thinker and the thought.
Distracting with abstraction.
The planer and the plan,
all predetermined,
blind ,voiceless reaction.
I watch very carefully ,
check along the seams,
for fissures in this construct.
For the tiny streams of freedom,
washing through our dreams.
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Written on March 21, 2024
Submitted by robertl.92681 on March 20, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 385 |
Words | 82 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6 |
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