Betrayal

Brad Van Conant II 1974 (Croswell)



The knife in my back was worth
two through my heart.
And to think that I vowed,  
“’Till Death Do Us Part!”
Never again will I trust like I did,
and be forced to let go of the
“one” life within.

I thought that I’d found a
soulmate for life, yet all that
it was, was a fistful of strife.
Looking back now is like
night unto day, just pages
ripped out of my book
along the way.

I’ll try to let go of this pain
in my side, and run to a place
deep within where I’ll hide.
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Written on 2004

Submitted by Brad_II on December 05, 2022

Modified on March 15, 2023

34 sec read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXAXBX BXXXXXX XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 491
Words 114
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 3

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