Seismographic Kaleidescope
I'm often to be found more predominantly inside my own mind than anywhere else.
My drawings act as a seismograph for my internal quakes,
pieces of my mind snapping apart and the splitting lines
rock apart with them.
I am everything that I am not, and nothing
that I am. Alice
knew far more of herself than I, but I, at least,
still possess myself.
I will not shape myself into your molds.
I am nothing of clay or wood, I am icy stone.
I am the bottom of the glacier,
the base root of the tree,
the form from which the mold is made.
I am no delicate flower, fragile and helpless.
I am the oak-root, tying myself
into the Earth,
the reality,
the truth.
I am half-mad
once-loved
twice-lost
four times a fool, but
never a fool in love,
never losing my mind, I was
born with half semi-insanity and grew to be
fully half-insane and this
is my gift.
You cannot drive me mad,
cannot make me grieve by
leaving me, cannot
kill my heart because,
don't you realize yet?
It was born broken.
So try to break me,
try to hurt me,
try to be crueller to me than
I am to myself and see
how successful you can be.
You, my dear, are far too whole
to break the broken and darling,
broken I am.
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"I am half-mad
once-loved
twice-lost
four times a fool, but
never a fool in love..."
This, for me, was the best part of the whole poem. I think this had the rhythm you were trying to achieve throughout, and this is where it really came together. I might consider changing your spacing, I found it a bit rough. Typically, I try to avoid ending a line with words like "and," or "the," because I feel like it loses some of its strength. That is entirely a stylistic choice though and is up to you.
Overall, this was a pretty cool read, and I would love to hear it slammed someday.
Ͼirce