Irony



He once said you would never be
That for you he had no seed
When you arrived you he denied
He spilled his blood to prove you mine
The truth now bleeds he cannot lie
You are his seed but now you’re mine.

About this poem

My lady friend got pregnant by her boyfriend. The boyfriend claimed he was sterile and therefore cannot be the father. Because the lady and I were close friends, he accused me of fathering the child. He had a blood test done to prove I was the father. Blood test confirmed he was the father. A few months later a beautiful little girl was born. The man who fathered her left town. I ended up building a life with my lady friend raising the child as my own. Ironically, now she is mine. I wrote this poem when she was six months old. She is 28 now. 

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Written on February 14, 1996

Submitted by camassey5 on July 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDED
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 204
Words 43
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6

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