Going Down?

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



Falling is embarrassing
It puts the weak to shame
No matter who it happens to
There's no one else to blame

It always looks like tragedy
Whenever it occurs
But many times it's not like that
It's healing for our hurts

Too many times we carry things
we were not made to bare
And falling makes us let them go
So, we can finally share

You're in a storm that will not fade
and does not go away
It only will intensify
the longer here we stay

BUT

The root of bitterness cannot prosper
Where the seed of love is sown!
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Written on July 26, 2011

Submitted by dawg4jesus on July 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XXXX XBXB XCXC XX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 513
Words 106
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 2

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