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Depressed Mother to Her Unborn Child

Neil Dave 1993

If you knew what I know, would we ever get to meet?
Would you gasp for air, before you were out of there
And drown inside of me?

If you knew what I know, would you turn my cord into a noose?
Would you get tied up, my precious little cub
Before I cut you loose?

If you knew what I know, would you make a gallows between my legs?
Would you turn my womb into a tomb? would the first of you I see
Be your cute still little face swinging from knee to knee?

If you knew what I know, would you make my bones a chopping block?
Would you suffocate or decapitate,
Before I drop you like a rock?

If you knew what I know, would we ever get to meet?
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Written on August 10, 2022

Submitted by neilkdave on September 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axb cxc xbb dxd A
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 640
Words 147
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
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Neil Dave

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