Shelf
I am who I am
And that’s just me
The me that is, the me that be
Tomorrow I might be different, its true
But I’ll always be me and you’ll always be you
And when winds of change come blowin’ through
The we that’s flailing and wailing—us, too
For the greatest lie we keep on our shelf
Is “I’m sorry, forgive me, I wasn’t myself.”
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Submitted by GMWood on February 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 349 |
Words | 70 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 2 |
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