You May



You may write me down as history,
With your schemes so full of lies,
You may stomp me down in the dirt,
But like the dust I too shall rise.

You may think of me,
With only hatred and regret,
You may say you never loved me,
And wished that we had never met.

You may move on,
Leaving me in the past,
I may become that memory,
That reflected a regret that didnt last

You may try and say,,
Things I dont want to hear.
And treat me like the plague,
That noone would come near.

You may do all of these things,
That I cant myself control
But theres there is one thing you cannot do
And that is take away my soul.


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Love and control

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Written on September 16, 2021

Submitted by kayla_j on September 17, 2021

Modified by kayla_j on November 10, 2021

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXB ACAC XDAD XXXX XEXE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 615
Words 148
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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