Analysis of love like a mother



Dear Mum,
I’m sorry.
I love you.
Please don’t forgive me.

I lie,
and you reach out to me.
I shout,
and you ask me if i’m okay.
I don’t deserve you,
but you love me anyway.

You forgive and forget every time,
but i let you down again.
You give me your trust,
but i throw it away.
I don’t want to let you down,
but i do it anyway.

How do you do it? why?
Because you love me,
and i love you.
Thank you mummy.

I love you Mum,
but you too are human,
you too make mistakes,
you too lie,
you too shout,
you too hurt me,
you too sometimes don’t deserve me.

But it’s okay, i love you anyway.
It’s okay, i’ll forgive and forget.
Because being human is beautiful,
a gift of making mistakes and not always learning from them.
But family is an even bigger gift,
of unconditional love that often makes you murderous.
But we still yearn for it, love and acceptance of ironically loved ones.

Because that’s what it’s all about.
Loving both ways.
So maybe, i’m not all alone.
in this bad.


Scheme ABCB DBEFCF XXXFXF DBCB AXXDEBB FXXXXXX EXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11 110 111 11011 11 011111 11 0111111 11011 111110 1010011001 1111101 11111 111101 1111111 111110 111111 01111 0111 1110 1111 111110 11101 111 111 1111 11011011 11111110 11101001 0110101100 01110010111011 11001110101 10100111011100 111111100101010011 01111101 1011 11011101 011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,000
Words 235
Sentences 23
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 6, 4, 7, 7, 4
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

this poem was written across the spread of 2-3 years and talks about the way you view your parents changes as you grow up realise your parents (mum in this case) are not those perfect almighty people you imagined them to be as a kid and actually they are very much human.

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Submitted by oliwia.maria on September 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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