Empty Words



Empty words and broken promises.

You say losing faith, I hear losing feelings.

Together forever, but not really.

For forever is a concept that seems foreign to you.

You say things like, oh it seems you've lost interest when in reality is the opposite.

We seem distant, no, you ARE distant.

Why should I continue to try? You have so clearly given in and given up.

The towels been thrown. Nobody is home in your mind to even reach.

We talk you say, but it's always in circles.

Round and round the same track with no actual outcome.

Always the same, talk, a week or 2 it's fine, then right back where we started.

Why?
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Written on September 29, 2021

Submitted by maryann.60641 on November 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X X X X X X X X X
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 625
Words 137
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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