Be better he said
Be Better he said
He told me to be better
To be better than him
You seem just to know how to upset her
It seems our relationship is grim
I didn’t understand then
But now I see perfectly
This will never stop, it will just happen again
You don’t take this urgently
You can’t, and won’t stop
Not even for me
You had a gun, and the sound went POP!
I wish for you just to be free
You had taken my father, just like you do with money
Like you tried with that boy’s, and man’s life
It seems as though it can never be sunny
We will likely always be in strife
You had never told me
Told me about the reasons as to why
I wish for you to be able to see
To see that I love you so much that I would die
Yet at the same time I hate you
I hate you just as much I love you and more
I just wish it wasn't true
You also love to ingore
About this poem
My 14 year old wrote this about her dad who shot a man and a spending the rest of his life in prison
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Submitted by moejoeray on October 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X ABAB CDCD EDED DFDF DGDG HXHA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 844 |
Words | 194 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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