Lost Eyes

Within the haunted depths of your eyes

I see pain, fear and desperstion

uncertainty is printed on your face

trapped in the nightmare of living

searching for a way to escape

finding only locked doors before you

like a butterfly trapped in a glass

you beat yourself unmercifully
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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October 17, 2016 at 12:41 PM
Since you have said, "I do not know" as to poetic form, I would say that this is free verse. Free Verse can be rhymed or un-rhymed, may have internal rhyme or none at all. The lines may be long or short. It can be broken into stanzas or not. It may be punctuated or not. Basically, a free verse poem's appearance is totally up to the poet.
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