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Better Left Dead

Courtney Goodman 1994 (Texas)

Free verse
There are some things better left unsaid
Some poems, better left unread
And Our love, better left dead

I had to wake the monster
The one that I call “love”
I fed it with my guilt and anger
And it called my bluff

Sitting with the demon,
Stumbling at its feet,
If only for a season,
I would have it love me

Will you want me now, dear monster
Now that I’ve bowed and fallen
I’m laid open in wonder
Yours forever, though forgotten.
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Written on November 12, 2023

Submitted by courtneyg.65553 on November 13, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAA BXBX CXCX BCBC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 450
Words 99
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 4
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