For Now, But Not For Long My Sons
I feel it slipping away.
The love I have given so close and
So far.
No longer is there love for me.
My pieces of me, born through
An eternal struggle.
How do I fight when the war seems
All but lost?
To try so hard but hell inflicts me
Since heaven rejects me.
My seeds have cast away from me
They seem to have forgotten me.
But did they even remember me?
I bow away from now, but not forever..
I will return for you two…
My two who are a part of me…
About this poem
I wrote this poem 12 years ago during a very difficult time in fatherhood. I basically wrote how I was feeling and sometimes still feel.
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Written on November 30, 2010
Submitted by tstewart831 on December 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | ABCDEFGHDDDDDIED |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 457 |
| Words | 107 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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