They Should Not Love You



You have an easy smile,
Quick and full.
But your tongue is rotten,
You have black ooze
Curdling in the back of your throat.

You have such beautiful hair,
Honey colored and satin touched.
So thick,
It covers the insects living in your scalp,
Which bore holes into your skull.

Your eyes are blue-green
And gold like the sun.
Though the green often turns sickly,
the gold pales and weeps.
With a second look, they will see worms.

You care so much,
So very much.
But actions speak louder than words,
Accidents are still crimes,
And you are a felony.
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Submitted by DaisyMMontgomery on October 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAXX XXXXX XABXX CCXXB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 558
Words 122
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5

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