don't tell me



don’t tell me that you’re here (Elsee)  
just drop by & let me drop where I am  
don’t let me know how you prayed  
at the walls of my ruins  
don’t let me understand your vendetta  
drop the peace pin from your heart    
& kill me with tenderness
Where I lay.
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don’t let me know    
how my world will crumble down  
just raise a last toast before I go tonight  
because you’ve won.
don’t want to hear the sound of me die    
don’t want you to repeat  
the promises you never kept, I’ve memorized them,  
written on the crumbled paper walls of my skin  
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don’t twist my death so slow  
that time expires before me,  
before the dying sun comes up,   
before my organic coffin reaches a grave...
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I want to crash my final bed, a broken man   
before you dance on my aborted memory  
just for you to watch me cave in tonight   
in my grave, on my nieve wishes
that wanted you to understand    
I don’t want to understand
just drop by & let me drop where I am.

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Written on February 02, 2023

Submitted by azdi404 on March 15, 2023

Modified by azdi404 on March 19, 2023

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Scheme aBxaxxax cxdxxxxx cexx xedaffB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,007
Words 211
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 9, 9, 5, 7

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