Heart to Ice
It takes a pounding, it takes back stabbing, and rejection. Yet it keeps beating.
Bum bum bum.
But day in and day out it is slowing poisoned by the hurt of man.
Bum bum.
Poisoned by the careless tongue of man it weakens.
Bum.
It takes only so much before it stops and freezes over with a shield of ice so it can be hurt no more!
No more hoping, no more hurt. No flame can now melt its defences.
A heart can only take so much.
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Written on November 19, 2023
Submitted by Wwinter86 on November 19, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 429 |
Words | 98 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 3 |
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