Dependent, by Suzette Richards – image generated in the style of Picasso (23/4/2023).
DESIGN SUMMARY
Poetic device: PERSONA
I used refractory rhymes throughout the poem.
Opening the door onto your secret, my heart pounds at the display of old wounds. Healing achieved by clinging to nothing— a future only obliquely glimpsed. My heart pounds at the display of old wounds where other’s careless words and barbs had pierced. A future only obliquely glimpsed through a whiskey bottle nearly empty. Where other’s careless words and barbs had pierced, going through life like that makes one anxious. Through a whiskey bottle nearly empty, discontent is always triggered by something. Going through life like that makes one anxious; healing achieved by clinging to nothing. Discontent is always triggered by something— opening the door onto your secret.
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