Promise of a Threat (TW for mention of SA)
I wish I could go back
To that one
Fateful day again
And unmake the mistake
That left me
A million miles away
From the me
I once knew.
I wish I hadn’t let you
Do the things
You did to me.
I wish I had refused
So my life might’ve taken
A better turn
Than this.
If you really would have
Threatened to kill me,
If I didn’t do with you
What you wanted
And I still refused,
Would you actually have taken knives
Out of your pocket
Or backpack or wherever
And still actually try
To hurt or kill me?
If I didn’t care about your
Now very-real threat
And still I refused,
Would you still have killed me?
Was it really a threat,
Or not?
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Submitted by lonely-blue-sheep on April 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFEGGHEIBJKLEGMINOPQERSIEST |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 147 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 31 |
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