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Mended Lines

Jerry Cassidy 1969 (NJ)

Free verse
Are you ready?

Do you feel it?

Those mended lines in your broken heart
Becoming whole and one
Pressed together with love
I am going to love you
As a woman is to be loved

I will press those broken pieces back together
Slowly, carefully, respectfully
Showing caution for what they have been through
Taking time to move each piece
Until the heart is one – whole and beating fierce

The warmth will spread
Slowly, uncertainly, snail-like
Until it begins to fill your form
Invading your conscious mind
Until you are fully aware

Are you ready?

To be loved?

About this poem

broken hearts made whole

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Submitted by Themadpoet1969 on December 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A x xxxbc xabxx xxxxx A c
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 558
Words 109
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 5, 5, 5, 1, 1
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